Sansho the bailiff  [videorecording] / 
 Sanshão dayãu 
[Daiei Studios ; a Kenji Mizoguchi film ; produced by Masaichi Nagata ; written by Fuji Yahiro, Yoshikata Yoda ; directed by Kenji Mizoguchi]. 
 - [Irvington, N.Y.] :  S.l. :  Criterion Collection :  Janus Films ;  Kadokawa Pictures,  c2007. 
 - 1 videodisc (124 min.) :  sd., b&w ;  4 3/4 in. +  1 booklet (77 p. : ill. ; 19 cm.) 
 - The Criterion collection ;  386 .
 - Criterion collection (DVD videodiscs) ;  386. .
<br/><br/> Title from container.  Originally produced as a motion picture in 1954.  Special features: Commentary by Japanese literature professor Jeffrey Angles; Video interview with actress Kyoko Kagawa recalling the making of Sansho the Bailiff; Video interview with assistant director Tokuzo Tanaka; Video interview with film critic and historian Tadao Sato. 
<br/><br/>Cinematographer, Kazuo Miyagawa ; editor, Mitsuzão Miyata ; music, Fumio Hayasaka, Tamekichi Mochizuki, Kanahiachi Odera ; production designers, Kisaku Ito, Shozaburo Nakajima.  Cinematographer, Kazuo Miyagawa ; editor, Mitsuzão Miyata ; music, Fumio Hayasaka, Tamekichi Mochizuki, Kanahiachi Odera ; production designers, Kisaku Ito, Shozaburo Nakajima. 
<br/><br/>Kinuyo Tanaka, Yoshiaki Hanayagi, Kyãoko Kagawa, Eitarão Shindão. 
<br/><br/> 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.  Accompanying booklet features an 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. 
<br/><br/> Not rated. 
<br/><br/><br/>DVD; region 1, NTSC; full screen (1.33:1) presentation; Dolby Digital 1.0 mono.. 
<br/><br/><br/>Japanese dialogue with optional English subtitles. 
<br/><br/><label>ISBN: </label>1934121479 9781934121474 
<br/><br/><label>Standard No.: </label>715515023627 
<br/><br/><label>Publisher. No.: </label>CC1692D  Criterion Collection 
<br/><br/><label>Source: </label> Midwest Tape  http://www.midwesttapes.com 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>Governors--Drama.<br/>Governors' spouses--Japan--Drama.<br/>Exile (Punishment)--Japan--Drama.<br/>Slave traders--Japan--Drama.<br/>Governors--Drama.<br/>Governors' spouses--Japan--Drama.<br/>Exile (Punishment)--Japan--Drama.<br/>Slave traders--Japan--Drama.<br/>Cine Japonés (inglés)
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Geographic Terms: </label><br/>Japan--Drama.<br/>Japan--Drama.
<br/><br/><label>Index Terms--Genre/Form: </label><br/>Feature films.<br/>Video recordings for the hearing impaired.<br/>Melodrama--Feature.<br/>Feature films.<br/>Melodrama.
<br/><br/><label>LC Class. No.: </label>CM DVD 01206 
<br/><br/><label>Dewey Class. No.: </label>791.43/72