Sansho the bailiff [videorecording] / [Daiei Studios ; a Kenji Mizoguchi film ; produced by Masaichi Nagata ; written by Fuji Yahiro, Yoshikata Yoda ; directed by Kenji Mizoguchi].
Format:
[videorecording] /
Publisher:
Kadokawa Pictures,
Copyright Date:
c2007
Description:
1 videodisc (124 min.) : sd., b&w ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 booklet (77 p. : ill. ; 19 cm.)
Title from container. Kinuyo Tanaka, Yoshiaki Hanayagi, Kyôko Kagawa, Eitarô Shindô. Originally produced as a motion picture in 1954. Special features: Commentary by Japanese literature professor Jeffrey Angles; Video interview with actress Kyoko Kagawa recalling the making of Sansho the Bailiff; Video interview with assistant director Tokuzo Tanaka; Video interview with film critic and historian Tadao Sato.
Summary:
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. Accompanying booklet features an essay by scholar Mark Le Fanu; the story on which the film was based, Mori Ogai's "Sansho dayu," from 1915, in an acclaimed translation by J. Thomas Rimer; a written form of an oral variation of the same tale, dating back to the fifteenth century, in a rare English translation.
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