Sansho the bailiff
Daiei Studios; a Kenji Mizoguchi film; produced by Masaichi Nagata; written by Fuji Yahiro, Yoshikata Yoda; directed by Kenji Mizoquchi
- Resource Type:
- DVD Video
- Publication:
- [Irvington, N.Y.] : Criterion Collection, [2007]
- Distribution:
- Chatsworth, Calif. : Image Entertainment [distributor]
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- 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.
- Contributors:
- Language Notes:
- Japanese dialogue with optional English subtitles.
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- Subjects:
- System Details:
- DVD, region 1, full screen (1.33:1) presentation; Dolby Digital 1.0 mono., dual-layer, DVD-9.
- Performers:
- Cast: Kinuyo Tanaka, Yoshiaki Hanayaki, Kyôko Kagawa, Eitarô Shindô.
- Production Credits:
- Cinematographer, Kazuo Miyagawa ; editor, Mitsuzô Miyata ; music, Fumio Hayasaka, Tamekichi Mochizuki, Kanahiachi Odera ; production designers, Kisaku Ito, Shozaburo Nakajima.
- General Notes:
- Title from container.
Originally released as a motion picture in 1954.
Special features: New, restored high-definition digital transfer; audio commentary by Japanese literature professor Jeffrey Angles; new video interviews with critic Tadao Sato, assistant director Tokugo Tanaka, and legendary actress Kyoko Kagawa on the making of the film and its lasting importance; a book featuring a new 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. - Audience:
- Not rated.
- Physical Description:
- 1 videodisc (124 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
- Physical Characteristics:
- plastic; metal; polychrome
- Audio Characteristics:
- digital; optical
- Digital Characteristics:
- video file; DVD video; region 1
- Call Numbers:
- SAN DVD
- ISBNs:
- 1934121479
9781934121474 - Other Standard Numbers:
- Universal Product Code: 715515023627
Publisher Number, Criterion Collection: CC1692D - OCLC Numbers:
- 966166820
85790839 [Invalid]
