Sansho Dayu

(Sansho the Bailiff)

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by Dudley Andrew and Carole Cavanaugh

Type

Studies

Subject

One Film > Sansho the Bailiff

Keywords

Kenji Mizoguchi

Publishing date

2020

Publisher

BFI Publishing

Collection

BFI Film Classics
2nd edition

Language

English

Relative size

Physical desc.

Paperback • 96 pages
5 ¾ x 8 inches (14.5 x 20.5 cm)

ISBN

978-1-83871-932-6

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Book Presentation:
Kenji Mizoguchi's masterpiece Sansho Dayu (1954) retells a classic Japanese folktale about an eleventh-century feudal official forced into exile by his political enemies. In his absence, his children fall under the corrupting influence of the malevolent bailiff Sansho. In their study of the film, film scholar Dudley Andrew and Japanese literature professor Carole Cavanaugh highlight the cultural, aesthetic and social contexts of this film which is at once rooted in folk legend and a modern artwork released in the aftermath of World War II. This edition includes a new foreword by the authors in which they consider the film's contemporary parallels in modern slavery and children torn from their families by malevolent authorities.

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