Mar 31, 1954
124 min
Full-HD

Sansho the Bailiff (1954)

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

Category

Drama

Country

Japan

Companies

Daiei Film

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

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