Sansho the bailiff
By: produced by Masaichi Nagata ; screenplay by Fuji Yahiro, Yushikata Yoda ; directed by Kenji Mizoguchi
Contributors: Tanaka, Kinuyo, 1909-1977; Hanayagi, Yoshiaki, 1924-1978; Kagawa, Kyōko; Mori, Ogai, 1862-1922
Edition: Special ed., high definition.
Series: Criterion collection : -- 386; Criterion collection -- 386.
Publisher: Criterion Collection
Published: 2013
Place of publication: New York, NY
Language: jpn
Format: [videorecording] /
Number of pages: 124
Subjects: Drama; Film adaptations; Slave traders; Families; Feudalism
Other titles: Sanshō dayū (Motion picture)
Description: Slave traders tear a governer's family apart after a feudal lord forces him into exile.
Notes: Based on the story by Ogai Mori.

Originally released as a motion picture in 1954.

Features: audio commentary featuring Japanese-literature scholar Jeffrey Angles; interviews with critic Tadao Sato, assistant director Tokuzo Tanaka, and actress Kyoko Kagawa on the making of the film and its lasting importance; booklet featuring an essay by scholar Mark Le Fanu and two versions of the story on which the film is based: Ogai Mori's 1915 "Sansho the steward" and an earlier oral variation in written form.

Kinuyo Tanaka, Yoshiaki Hanayagi, Kyoko Kagawa, Eitaro Shindo.

MPAA rating: Not rated.

Blu-ray disc, uncompressed mono.

This is a Blu-ray disc made for Blu-ray disc players and will not play in standard DVD players.

For private home use only.

In Japanese with optional English subtitles.