Sansho the Bailiff
Without mercy, man is like a beast.
In medieval Japan, a woman and her children journey to find the family's patriarch, who was exiled years earlier.
- 8.1
- 1954
- Released
- 2h 4m
Kinuyo Tanaka
Tamaki
Yoshiaki Hanayagi
Zushiô
Kyōko Kagawa
Anju
Eitarō Shindō
Sanshô dayû
Ichirō Sugai
Minister of Justice
Bontarō Miake
Kichiji
Yōko Kozono
Kohagi
Chieko Naniwa
UbatakeKikue Mōri
PriestessKen Mitsuda
Prime Minister Fujiwara
Masao Shimizu
Masauji Taira
Ryōsuke Kagawa
Ritsushi KumotakeAkitake Kōno
TaroKanji Koshiba
Kaikudo NaitoShinobu Araki
Sadaya
Masahiko Tsugawa
Young ZushiōKeiko Enami
Young Anju
Teruko Ōmi
Nakagimi
Kimiko Tachibana
NamijiReiko Kongō
Shiono
Shōzō Nanbu
Masasue TairaRyōnosuke Azuma
LandlordKazukimi Okuni
Norimura
Saburo Date
KimpeiSumao Ishihara
YakkoIchirō Amano
Midori Komatsu
Harbour's Lady
Yukio Horikita
JiroJun Fujikawa
KanamaruSōji Shibata
Sado ManAkira Shimizu
Slave Trader
Tokio Oki
Harbour's ManAkira Shiga
Farmer #2Goro Nakanishi
Hachiro Okuni
Saburo MiyazakiAkiyoshi Kikuno
Released
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- #japan
- #courtesan
- #exile
- #banishment
- #prostitution
- #compassion
- #based on short story
- #decree
- #mercy
- #feudal japan
- #11th century
- #ancient japan
Reviews
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