山椒大夫 = Sansho the bailiff /
Sanshō-dayū = Sansho the bailiff / Daiei Kabushiki Kaisha seisaku ; seisaku, Nagata Masaichi ; gensaku, Mori Ōgai ; kyakuhon, Yahiro Fuji, Yorita Yoshikata ; Kantoku, Mizoguchi Kenji.
Material type:
FilmPublisher number: CC2477D | Criterion CollectionLanguage: Japanese Original language: Japanese Subtitle language: English Series: Criterion collection ; 386.Publisher: [New York, NY] : Criterion Collection, [2015]Edition: DVD editionDescription: 1 videodisc (124 min.) : sound, black and white ; 4 3/4 inContent type: - two-dimensional moving image
- video
- videodisc
- 9781604659856
- 1604659858
- English title: Sansho the bailiff
- Sanshō-dayū (Motion picture)
- Director of photography, Kazuo Miyagawa ; director of art, Kisaku Itō ; music, Fumio Hayasaka.
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Main Library | DVD | WORLD Sansho-d | Available | 33111009508066 |
Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:
Kenji Mizoguchi's masterpiece opens in 11th century Japan with an aristocratic woman named Tamaki traveling through the woods with her daughter Anju, son Zushio, and her maid. Through flashbacks, we learn that her husband, Taira Masauji, was a local governor who was exiled because of his honesty and integrity. Before he leaves, he gives his son an amulet of Kannon, the goddess of mercy, and tells him, "Without mercy, man is like a beast. Men are created equal, everyone is entitled to happiness." On their journey to reunite with their husband/father, they are ambushed by kidnappers, who sell the mother as a prostitute and the two children as slaves to the corrupt Sansho (Eitaro Shindo). As adults, Zushio (Yoshiaki Hanayagi) and his sister Anju (Kyoko Kagawa) continue to toil as servants. Anju learns that her mother has become a courtesan on the remote island of Sado. Though Zushio has become Sansho's most trusted and brutal aide, he manages to escape at Anju's behest. He finds sanctuary at a local monastery while Anju, looking to avoid the inevitably violent retribution, drowns herself in a lake. Seeking justice, Zushio petitions the chief advisor, a desperate act that usually results in imprisonment or death. Yet his pleas prove more successful than he ever dreamed. When he finally has the power to thwart evil Sansho and reunify his family, he learns that he is tragically too late. ~ Jonathan Crow, Rovi
DVD, NTSC, region 1, full screen (1.33:1) presentation; Dolby Digital monaural.
In Japanese with English subtitles.
880-03 Tanaka Kinuyo, Hanayagi Yoshiaki, Kagawa Kyōko, Shindo Eitaro.
Director of photography, Kazuo Miyagawa ; director of art, Kisaku Itō ; music, Fumio Hayasaka.
Based on a story by Ogai Mori.
Originally released as a motion picture in 1954.
Previously released on DVD by Criterion Collection in 2007.
When an idealistic governor disobeys the reigning feudal lord, he is cast into exile, his wife and children left to fend for themselves and eventually wrenched apart by vicious slave drivers -- Container.
Special edition: High-definition digital restorations; Audio commentary featuring Japanese literature scholar Jeffrey Angles; Interviews with critic Tadao Sato, assistant director Tokuzo Tanaka, and actress Kyoko Kagawa on the making of the film and its lasting importance.