The River Fuefuki

The eldest son of a destitute peasant family living by the bridge over the Fuefuki River, in an age of relentless civil war, chooses the path of a samurai to escape his misery. His younger brothers soon follow. As the men of the family, across five generations, march off to war and certain death, the women remain by the riverbank, doomed to endure an endless cycle of loss, grief, and waiting. The flowing water becomes a silent witness to the machinery of violence, where changing seasons and shifting lords never alter the fate of those crushed beneath history's wheel.