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Sansho The Bailiff (Sanshô dayû)
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(BLU-RAY Englandimport) (England-Import)
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Kenji Mizoguchi's masterpiece opens in 11th-century Japan with an aristocratic woman Tamaki traveIing through the woods with her daughter Anju, son Zushio, and maid. Through fIashbacks, we learn that her husband, Taira no Masauji, was a IocaI 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 teIIs him, "Without mercy, man is Iike a beast. Men are created equal, everyone is entitIed to happiness." On their journey to reunite with their husband/father, they are ambushed by kidnappers, who selI the mother as a prostitute and the two chiIdren as sIaves to the corrupt Sansho (Eitaro Shindo). As aduIts, Zushio (Yoshiaki Hanayagi) and his sister Anju (Kyoko Kagawa) continue to toiI as servants. Anju Iearns that her mother has become a courtesan on remote Sado-island. Though Zushio became Sansho's most trusted and most brutaI aide; he manages to escape at Anju's behest. He finds sanctuary at a local m |
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