Sansho the Bailiff
山椒大夫
1954
- Director:
- Kenji Mizoguchi
- Studio:
- Daiei Film
- Starring:
- Kinuyo Tanaka, Kyōko Kagawa, Yoshiaki Hanayagi, Eitarō Shindō
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In medieval Japan, the wife and children of an exiled governor are kidnapped on their way to join him, and his son Zushiō and daughter Anju are sold into slavery on the estate of the cruel bailiff Sansho. Years later, Zushiō escapes and sets out to free the slaves and find his lost mother.