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1954

Sanshodayu

SANSHO THE BAILIFF

山椒大夫

(c)KADOKAWA CORPORATION 1954

(c)KADOKAWA CORPORATION 1954

Release Date
March, 31st, 1954
Running Time
126 min
Genre
Feature
Color
Monochrome
Screening Format
-
Screening Format with Subtitles
English (DCP) Italian (DCP)

[ Directed by ]

[ Cast ]

[ Staff ]

[ Production Company ]

Daiei Kyoto Studio

[ Distributor (Japan) ]

DAIEI

[ Story ]

Winner of the Silver Lion Award at the Venice Film Festival. Medieval Japan: a compassionate governor is exiled, his family sold into slavery. Raised by a brutal tax collector, the governor's son grows into a brute himself but a childhood memory forces him to undertake an unthinkable challenge to rescue his sister.

【Quoted from the database of KADOKAWA】

[ Contact (International) ]

KADOKAWA CORPORATION
International Sales, Motion Picture Business

2-13-3 Fujimi, Chiyoda-ku, Tokyo 102-8177
Rep: NATSUNO Takeshi (President)
Attn: MORI Chiyo
tel: +81 50 1746 1220
E-mail: mori-c@kadokawa.jp
http://www.kadokawa.co.jp

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