| Description |
1 videodisc (124 min.) : sound, black and white ; 4 3/4 in. |
| Series |
Criterion collection ; 386.
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| System Details |
Blu-ray Disc, region A, full screen (1.33:1) presentation; mono.; requires Blu-ray player. |
| Language |
In Japanese with optional English subtitles. |
| Cast |
Tanaka Kinuyo, Hanayagi Yoshiaki, Kagawa Kyōko, Shindo Eitaro. |
| Credits |
Cinematographer, Miyagawa Kazuo ; production designer, Itō Kisaku ; music, Hayasaka Fumio ; editor, Miyata Mitsuzō. |
| Note |
Originally released as a motion picture in 1954. |
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Special features: audio commentary by Japanese literature professor Jeffrey Angles; new video interviews with critic Tadao Sato, assistant director Tokugo Tanaka, and actress Kyoko Kagawa on the making of the film and its lasting importance. |
| Summary |
When an idealistic governor disobeys the reigning feudal lord, he is cast into exile, his wife and children left to defend for themselves and eventually are separated by vicious slave traders. Under the dazzling direction of Kenji Mizoguchi, Sansho the Bailiff is a classic Japanese story which is seen as a Japanese masterpiece, a monumental, empathetic expression of human resilience in the face of evil. |
| Subject |
Slavery -- Japan -- Drama -- Videodiscs.
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Governors -- Japan -- Drama -- Videodiscs.
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Governors' spouses -- Japan -- Drama -- Videodiscs.
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Families -- Japan -- Drama -- Videodiscs.
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Local officials and employees -- Japan -- Drama -- Videodiscs.
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Slaveholders -- Japan -- Drama -- Videodiscs.
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Cruelty -- Drama -- Videodiscs.
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Exile (Punishment) -- Japan -- Drama -- Videodiscs.
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Japan -- Videodiscs. |
| Genre |
Melodramas (Motion pictures)
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Feature films.
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Fiction films.
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Foreign films, Japanese.
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Japanese language materials.
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Blu-ray discs.
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| Added Author |
Mizoguchi, Kenji, 1898-1956.
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Nagata, Masaichi, 1906-1985.
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Yahiro, Fuji, 1904-1986.
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Yoda, Yoshikata, 1909-1991.
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Tanaka, Kinuyo, 1909-1977.
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Hanayagi, Yoshiaki, 1924-1978.
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Kagawa, Kyōko.
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Shindō, Eitarō, 1899-1977.
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Miyagawa, Kazuo, 1908-1999.
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Itō, Kisaku, 1899-1967.
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Hayasaka, Fumio, 1914-1955.
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Mori, Ōgai, 1862-1922.
Sanshō dayū.
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Daiē, Kabushiki Kaisha.
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Criterion Collection (Firm)
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| Note |
Sanshō dayū |
| Standard No. |
715515102315 |
| Music No. |
CC2227BD The Criterion Collection |
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