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Kenji Mizoguchi

Sanshô Dayû (Sansho the Bailiff)

Director Kenji Mizoguchi Composer Fumio Hayasaka, Kinshichi Kodera, Tamezô Mochizuki Cast Kinuyo Tanaka, Yoshiaki Hanayagi, Kyôko Kagawa
124' - 1954 - Drama - Dialogue: Japanese
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

Directors

Kenji Mizoguchi

Composers

Fumio Hayasaka, Kinshichi Kodera, Tamezô Mochizuki

Cast

Kinuyo Tanaka, Yoshiaki Hanayagi, Kyôko Kagawa

Scenario

Fuji Yahiro, Yoshikata Yoda

Director of Photography

Kazuo Miyagawa

Editors

Mitsuzô Miyata

Producers

Masaichi Nagata

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Dialogue

Japanese

Countries of production

Japan

Screenplay based on

"Sanshō Dayū" (Ogai Mori)

Year

1954