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Sansho the Bailiff
Sansho dayu
drama
1954
Japan
Kenji Midzoguti
124 min.
Tyno Tanaka, Kisyo Hanayagi, Kyoo Kagawa, Eitaro Sindo, Akida Kono, Masao Simiza, Ken Mitsuda, Cazumuki Okuni, Yoko Kosono, Kimiko Tatibana
The action takes place in medieval Japan. Midzoguti tells the story of a woman and her two children who came to the slave traders. About the difficult fate of her children and about the difficulties that they had to endure, observing the covenants of their father.