TY - ADVS AU - Mizoguchi,Kenji AU - Nagata,Masaichi AU - Yahiro,Fuji AU - Yoda,Yoshikata AU - Tanaka,Kinuyo AU - Hanayagi,Yoshiaki AU - Kagawa,Kyåoko AU - Shindo,Eitaro AU - Miyagawa,Kazuo AU - Hayasaka,Fumio ED - Daiåe, Kabushiki Kaisha. ED - Criterion Collection (Firm) ED - Janus Films. TI - Sansho the bailiff T2 - The Criterion collection SN - 1934121479 AV - CM DVD 01206 U1 - 791.43/72 22 PY - 2007/// CY - [Irvington, N.Y.], S.l. PB - Criterion Collection, Janus Films, Kadokawa Pictures KW - Governors KW - Drama KW - Governors' spouses KW - Japan KW - Exile (Punishment) KW - Slave traders KW - Cine Japonés (inglés) KW - Feature films KW - Video recordings for the hearing impaired KW - Melodrama KW - Feature KW - migfg KW - gsafd N1 - 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; Cinematographer, Kazuo Miyagawa ; editor, Mitsuzão Miyata ; music, Fumio Hayasaka, Tamekichi Mochizuki, Kanahiachi Odera ; production designers, Kisaku Ito, Shozaburo Nakajima; Kinuyo Tanaka, Yoshiaki Hanayagi, Kyãoko Kagawa, Eitarão Shindão; Not rated N2 - 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 ER -