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Sansho the Bailiff

"Without mercy, man is like a beast."

Rating8.1/10

Release1954

Runtime2h 4m

Votes415

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

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Release Date

March 31, 1954

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Production Companies

Daiei Film

Cast

Kinuyo Tanaka

Tamaki

Yoshiaki Hanayagi

Zushiô

Kyōko Kagawa

Anju

Eitarō Shindō

Sanshô dayû

Ichirō Sugai

Minister of Justice

Bontarō Miake

Kichiji

Yōko Kozono

Kohagi

Chieko Naniwa

Ubatake

Kikue Mōri

Priestess

Ken Mitsuda

Prime Minister Fujiwara

Masao Shimizu

Masauji Taira

Ryōsuke Kagawa

Ritsushi Kumotake

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