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Sansho the Bailiff

Movie
1954
2h 4m
Not Rated
Japanese
Drama
User Score: 
8.3
Critic Score: 
98
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In medieval Japan, a woman and her children journey to find the family's patriarch, who was exiled years before.
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Sansho the Bailiff

Not Rated
Movie
1954
2h 4m
Japanese
Drama
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In medieval Japan, a woman and her children journey to find the family's patriarch, who was exiled years before.
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8.3
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CRITIC SCORE
98

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Cast

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Kinuyo Tanaka
Yoshiaki Hanayagi
Kyko Kagawa
Eitar Shind
Sanshô dayû
Ichir Sugai
Minister of Justice
Bontar Miake
Yko Kozono
Chieko Naniwa
Kikue Mri
Priestess
Ken Mitsuda
Prime Minister Fujiwara
Masao Shimizu
Masauji Taira
Rysuke Kagawa
Ritsushi Kumotake
Akitake Kno
Kanji Koshiba
Kaikudo Naito
Shinobu Araki
Masahiko Tsugawa
Young Zushiō
Keiko Enami
Young Anju
Teruko Omi
Nakagimi
Kimiko Tachibana
Reiko Kong
Shz Nanbu
Masasue Taira
Rynosuke Azuma
Kazukimi Okuni
Saburo Date
Sumao Ishihara
Directed By: Kenji Mizoguchi
Written By: Yoshikata Yoda (Screenplay), Fuji Yahiro (Screenplay), + 1 more

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juliosoft says...
2 years ago
I don't know which month is bigger, the movie or the tragedy.
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soonertbone says...
9 months ago
Brutal, even despairing at times. But it's a ultimately a humanist vision that centers compassion, and I loved it. Beautiful shots and motifs--really powerful filmmaking. Want to rewatch this again in the future.
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Maarten Delfgou says...
3 years ago
The original title of the film is Sanshô Dayû.
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Jay Shuai says...
2 years ago
Beautiful, devastating. Quite simply one of the greatest films ever made
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CinemaSerf
2 years ago
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 traffick More
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