Mar 28th 2024

Kenji Mizoguchi: Sansho the Bailiff (1954)

@ Doc Films at the University of Chicago

1212 E 59th St, Chicago, IL 60637

Opening Thursday, March 28th, at 7PM

Sansho the Bailiff (1954)
Kenji Mizoguchi · 124m · DCP

This is one of the greatest films ever made, and a sublime and emotionally overwhelming cinematic experience. In medieval Japan a family is torn apart, with the children sold into slavery. Amidst great suffering they learn to take to heart their father’s maxim that “without mercy, a man is not a man.” Tanaka’s appearance in the electrifying final scene may be her most indelible moment as an actress.

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