Sansho the Bailiff
山椒大夫
Without mercy, man is like a beast.
Overview
In 11th-century feudal Japan, following the exile of an idealistic governor, his wife and children are separated by slave traders; the children, Zushio and Anju, are sold into brutal servitude under the cruel bailiff Sansho.
- Production
- Daiei Film
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Cast
Kinuyo Tanaka
Tamaki
Kyōko Kagawa
Anju
Eitarō Shindō
Sanshô dayû
Ichirō Sugai
Minister of Justice
Bontarō Miake
Kichiji
Chieko Naniwa
Ubatake
Masao Shimizu
Masauji Taira
Ryōsuke Kagawa
Ritsushi Kumotake
Akitake Kōno
Taro
Kanji Koshiba
Kaikudo Naito
Masahiko Tsugawa
Young Zushiō
Teruko Ōmi
Nakagimi
Kimiko Tachibana
Namiji
Shōzō Nanbu
Masasue Taira
Saburo Date
Kimpei
Midori Komatsu
Harbour's Lady
Yukio Horikita
Jiro
Jun Fujikawa
Kanamaru
Crew
- Director
- Kenji Mizoguchi
- Writers
- Yoshikata Yoda,Fuji Yahiro
- Producers
- Masaichi Nagata
- Cinematography
- Kazuo Miyagawa
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CinemaSerf
January 4, 2023
When a benign provincial governor tries to intervene to protect his people from the brutality of the military, he is stripped of his rank and banished. His wife and children are forced to follow him, on foot, some time later and hopelessly ill-equipped for that task they fall prey to people traffickers who split the family up. The young daughter and son soon find themselves bought by the eponymous character and forced into cruel manual labour that only his son "Taro" (Akitake Kôno) seems at all …