Sansho the Bailiff (1954)

Director: Kenji Mizoguchi

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

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