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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

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