又名：The Seburi Story
山野の漂泊う山の民の一族で、群子の親分と呼ばれる木下一と一人息子の太が、亀蔵とクニの一家が住む川原の瀬降りを訪れた時には、山はもうすっかり色づいていた。ヤゾーが来たのは二人の息子カズオがハナという娘を嫁に迎えたためで、その仲立ちをするのであった。二人の祝言は古式にのっとり行なわれ、二人は山の民の掟に従って翌朝、新天地へ向かって旅立った。ヤゾーは一年前に妻を亡くしており独り身であった。クニはそんなヤ
Title：Seburi monogatari Year：1985 Genre：Drama Language：Japanese Country：Japan Director：Sadao Nakajima Writer：Sadao Nakajima Actors：Ken'ichi Hagiwara / Yumiko Fujita / Michiko Kohno Plot：The culturally isolated, nomadic Seburi people of western Japan are the subject of this tragedy about a few of the community's members who especially experience difficulties as modern Japan encroaches on their world. The setting is World War II, and conflicts have already arisen when the military police come to take Seburi men away into the army. Still following their own customs that can be harsh at times, and are particularly cruel to women (women must give birth alone and unaided, a woman's adultery is punished by burying her up to her neck in the earth and then leaving her for days), the Seburi are mainly treated with fear and animosity by the non-Seburi townspeople of the region. Along with the hardships arising from cultural clashes, nature's own vagaries present other challenges to the Seburi -- who still lived in tents until the 1950s. Winter avalanches and snowstorms cause as much havoc as the tensions engendered by the slow encroachment of the modern world.
