Sansho the Bailiff
Drama
8.075/10
|JP
|ja
|124 min
Release Date: 1954-03-31
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 Companies
Daiei Film
User Reviews
CinemaSerf
7/10
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...
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