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Sansho the Bailiff (1954)

★ 8.1/10 124 min Drama Japan Japanese
Director: Kenji Mizoguchi
Original Story: Mori Ogai
Screenplay by: Fuji Yahiro, Yoshikata Yoda
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Without mercy, man is like a beast.

Description

In medieval Japan, a woman and her children journey to find the family's patriarch, who was exiled years earlier.

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Top Cast

Kinuyo Tanaka
Kinuyo Tanaka Tamaki
Yoshiaki Hanayagi Zushiô
Kyōko Kagawa
Kyōko Kagawa Anju
Eitarō Shindō
Eitarō Shindō Sanshô dayû
Ichirō Sugai
Ichirō Sugai Minister of Justice
Bontarō Miake
Bontarō Miake Kichiji
Yōko Kozono Kohagi
Chieko Naniwa
Chieko Naniwa Ubatake

Sansho the Bailiff Appears on 14 Curated Movie Lists

Canon Institutions

1001 Movies You Must See Before You Die (2024)
1001 Movies You Must See Before You Die #728
Criterion Collection
Criterion Collection #384
Metacritic Must-See Movies of All-Time (Metascore: 81+/100) Redux
Metacritic #079
Sight and Sound’s Greatest Films of All Time 2022
Sight & Sound #76
The Film Foundation (by Martin Scorsese)
The Film Foundation #673

Critic Curated

BBC Culture: 100 Greatest Foreign Language Films
BBC #61
Paste Magazines 100 Best Films Of The 1950s
Paste Magazine #43
Roger Eberts Great Movies
Roger Ebert #282
The Telegraphs 500 Must See Films
The Telegraph #311

Filmmaker Curation

Ari Aster's Favorite Movies
IndieWire #08
Bill Hader's Favorite Movies
Collider #177
Edgar Wright's 1000 Favorite Movies
Letterboxd #168
Martin Scorsese's Alternative List of Favorite Films
LaCinetek #40

Letterboxd Lists

Letterboxd 120 Highest Rated 1950-1959 Films
Letterboxd #10

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