SANSHO THE BAILIFF
SANSYO DAYU
Drama
1954
B/W
126 mins.
- Director :
- Kenji Mizoguchi
- Screenplay :
- Fuji Yahiro, Teinosuke Kinugasa, Yoshitaka Yoda
- Original Story :
- Ogai Mori
- Cast :
- Kinuyo Tanaka, Yoshiaki Hanayagi, Kyoko Kagawa
Introduction
Winner of the Silver Lion Award at the Venice Film Festival. Medieval Japan: a compassionate governor is exiled, his family sold into slavery. Raised by a brutal tax collector, the governor's son grows into a brute himself but a childhood memory forces him to undertake an unthinkable challenge to rescue his sister.
©KADOKAWA CORPORATION 1954