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Sansho Dayu / Sansho the Baliff

by Dudley Andrew and Carole Cavanaugh

Type
Studies
Subject
One FilmSansho the Bailiff
Keywords
Kenji Mizoguchi
Publishing date
2000
   > See the newer edition (2020)
Publisher
BFI Publishing
Collection
BFI Film Classics
Language
English
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Relative size
Physical desc.
Paperback • 79 pages
5 ¼ x 7 ½ inches (13.5 x 19 cm)
ISBN-10
ISBN-13
0-85170-815-3
978-0-85170-815-7
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Book Presentation:
This text looks at Kenji Mizoguchi's film Sansho Dayu, a version of a famous Japanese folk-tale about an eleventth century feudal official forced into exile by his political enemies. In his absence, his children fall under the corrupting influence of the malevolent Sansho.

About the authors:
Dudley Andrew is the founder of the Institute for Cinema and Culture at the University of Iowa. He is the author of Major Film Theories (1976) and Mists of Regret: Culture and Sensibility in Classic French Film (1995). Carole Cavanaugh is Associate Professor of Japanese at Middlebury College. She has published widely on Japanese literature and film.

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Newer edition

Sansho Dayu:(Sansho the Bailiff)

Sansho Dayu (2020)

(Sansho the Bailiff)

by Dudley Andrew and Carole Cavanaugh

Publisher: BFI Publishing

Subject: One Film > Sansho the Bailiff

See Sansho the Bailiff (1954) on IMDB ...

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