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Sansho the Bailiff (1954)

Name: Sansho the Bailiff
Director: Kenji Mizoguchi
Genre: drama film, Jidaigeki
Rating: 8.3

Sansho the Bailiff is a 1954 Japanese period film directed by Kenji Mizoguchi based on a 1915 short story of the same name by Mori Ōgai, which in turn was based on a sekkyō-bushi appearing in written form in the 17th century. It follows two aristocratic children who are sold into slavery.

Directed by Kenji Mizoguchi · Shot by Kazuo Miyagawa · Music by Fumio Hayasaka

Elsewhere

More by Kenji Mizoguchi

Rupimono — 1923
The Day When Love Returns — 1923
Song of Home — 1925
Paper Doll's Whisper of Spring — 1926
Bird of Mercy — 1927
The Morning Sun Shines — 1929
Tokyo March — 1929
Urban Symphony — 1929
The Nihon Bridge — 1929
Tojin Okichi — 1930
Home Town — 1930
The Water Magician — 1933
The Mountain Pass of Love and Hate — 1934
The Downfall of Osen — 1935
Poppy — 1935
Oyuki the virgin — 1935
Sisters of the Gion — 1936
Osaka Elegy — 1936
The Straits of Love and Hate — 1937
The Story of the Last Chrysanthemum — 1939
A Woman of Osaka — 1940
The 47 Ronin — 1941
The Life of an Actor — 1941
Miyamoto Musashi — 1944
Three Generations of Danjuro — 1944
The Famous Sword Bijomaru — 1945
Victory Song — 1945
Utamaro and His Five Women — 1946
The Victory of Women — 1946
The Love of the Actress Sumako — 1947

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