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Kenji Mizoguchi

Sanshô Dayû (Sansho the Bailiff)

124' - 1954 - Drama - Dialogue: Japanese
Director: Kenji Mizoguchi Composer: Fumio Hayasaka, Kinshichi Kodera, Tamezô Mochizuki With: Kinuyo Tanaka, Yoshiaki Hanayagi, Kyôko Kagawa
In mediaeval Japan a compassionate governor is sent into exile. His wife and children try to join him, but are separated, and the children grow up amid suffering and oppression.

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Credits

Director

Kenji Mizoguchi

Composer

Fumio Hayasaka, Kinshichi Kodera, Tamezô Mochizuki

With

Kinuyo Tanaka, Yoshiaki Hanayagi, Kyôko Kagawa

Scenario

Fuji Yahiro, Yoshikata Yoda

Director of Photography

Kazuo Miyagawa

Editor

Mitsuzô Miyata

Producer

Masaichi Nagata

More information

Dialogue

Japanese

Countries of production

Japan

Screenplay based on

"Sanshō Dayū" (Ogai Mori)

Year

1954

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