Sansho Dayu (Sansho the Bailiff) (BFI Film Classics)

By Carole Cavanaugh

This textual content seems to be at Kenji Mizoguchi's movie Sansho Dayu, a model of a recognized jap folk-tale approximately an eleventth century feudal legit pressured into exile by means of his political enemies. In his absence, his youngsters fall lower than the corrupting effect of the malevolent Sansho.

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