Sansho the Bailiff

Sansho the Bailiff (1954)

Without mercy, man is like a beast.

Drama

In medieval Japan, a woman and her children journey to find the family's patriarch, who was exiled years earlier.

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  • Release Date: 1954-03-31
  • Runtime: 2h 4min
  • Director: Kenji Mizoguchi

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    • Trailer

    Cast

    • 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

      Ubatake

    • Kikue Mōri

      Priestess

    • Ken Mitsuda

      Prime Minister Fujiwara

    • Masao Shimizu

      Masauji Taira

    • Ryōsuke Kagawa

      Ritsushi Kumotake

    • Akitake Kōno

      Taro

    • Kanji Koshiba

      Kaikudo Naito

    • Shinobu Araki

      Sadaya

    • Masahiko Tsugawa

      Young Zushiō

    • Keiko Enami

      Young Anju

    • Teruko Ōmi

      Nakagimi

    • Kimiko Tachibana

      Namiji

    • Reiko Kongō

      Shiono

    • Shōzō Nanbu

      Masasue Taira

    • Ryōnosuke Azuma

      Landlord

    • Kazukimi Okuni

      Norimura

    • Saburo Date

      Kimpei

    • Sumao Ishihara

      Yakko

    • Ichirō Amano

    • Midori Komatsu

      Harbour's Lady

    • Yukio Horikita

      Jiro

    • Jun Fujikawa

      Kanamaru

    • Sōji Shibata

      Sado Man

    • Akira Shimizu

      Slave Trader

    • Tokio Oki

      Harbour's Man

    • Akira Shiga

      Farmer #2

    • Goro Nakanishi

    • Hachiro Okuni

      Saburo Miyazaki

    • Akiyoshi Kikuno

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