Three generations. One family. All of Japan's trauma, served cold as Hokkaido snow.
An epic drama depicting the lineage of a military family that lived for three generations before, during, and after World War II, against the backdrop of the turbulent history of the Showa period and the magnificent nature of Hokkaido.
Cinematography
Hokkaido landscapes that humble human suffering into poetry.
Acting
Chishū Ryū's face contains multitudes. Watch him say nothing.
Direction
Sadanaga wields 170 minutes like a slow-building avalanche.
Director
Masahisa Sadanaga
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
This was part of 1970s Japan's reckoning with wartime memory, released the same year as Imamura's 'Vengeance Is Mine'—both obsessed with buried national trauma.
Ichikawa Danjūrō XII, the kabuki legend, essentially plays himself—a traditional artist watching his world burn. Casting genius or cruel irony? Both.
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