Sansho the Bailiff
Mar 31 1954
•2h 4m
•Drama
In medieval Japan, a woman and her children journey to find the family's patriarch, who was exiled years earlier.
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Kinuyo Tanaka
Tamaki
Yoshiaki Hanayagi
Zushiô
Kyōko Kagawa
Anju
Eitarō Shindō
Sanshô dayû
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