Sansho the Bailiff Comments

  • Dallas 2023-07-25 06:28:53

    Excellent film, much more standard than Yuzuki Monogatari. Mizoguchi Kenji is really...

  • Clemmie 2023-07-04 11:32:38

    Well, I should watch this first and then Uyuki Monogatari. In this comparison, Yuyue Monogatari is a masterpiece. Mizoguchi's lens is very personal, the black and white tones are perfectly handled, and there are many angles of looking down. I'm not a professional, but this angle is really comfortable. The shortcomings of this film are also a bit obvious, the script is weak, and the characters' hearts are not digged deeper, so even when the language of the film is very good, it still feels a...

  • Jordi 2023-04-28 09:24:19

    Beloved! ! moved to...

  • Josefa 2022-10-17 11:50:06

    Post-war Japan has such a reflective film very well, a song that becomes a clue is a very clever, simple and moving story. The heroine is very beautiful. Check in this movie for the...

  • Daniela 2022-10-10 23:13:26

    The film is very dramatic, and the contradictions are sharp and clear, but it inevitably makes the characters a bit singular. But I heard that Mizoguchi didn't want to make the film as it is now, but had to make a big change to the original idea under the pressure of Daying...

  • Christian 2022-10-05 23:22:38

    It's not the best work of Kenji Mizoguchi, but it's still wonderful. The completion of the story may not be particularly good, but the shooting is classic, the pictures are beautiful, the soundtrack is wonderful, the performance is good, and the characters are well shaped. The director must be full of heart. Only with a breath of compassion will such a work be produced. Those who have been devastated for others, and those who are evil have high officials and generous salaries. The ending is a...

  • Julius 2022-09-06 10:03:04

    The tragedy in Kenji Mizoguchi's lens is the concentrated expression of institutional and social problems, and human nature is the most innocent. "Doctor Sanjiao" is a story about a home. A wife longs for her husband, an old mother longs for her son, and the son who lives far away often doesn't miss his home. The dream of reunion is getting farther and farther on the road to finding a home. The old man who was left alone in the vacant room finally said to the returning son, "We are finally...

  • Angeline 2022-04-24 07:01:25

    Kind heart, strict self-discipline, lenient towards others. Mizoguchi Kenji's masterpiece that recaptures Confucianism makes me, a Chinese, feel...

  • Friedrich 2022-04-24 07:01:25

    Obviously, the story of this film is not completely completed according to Mizoguchi Kenji's original intention. Otherwise, the name of the movie should not be Doctor Sanjiao, because the whole story is based on the chef king, and Doctor Sanjiao is just a villain who does not appear many times. But aside from those helpless elements outside the movie, the movie itself is excellent enough, regardless of Mizoguchi Kenji's signature camera movement, scheduling, or the emotional appeal of the story...

  • Halie 2022-04-24 07:01:25

    Faith can be latent, but not demoralized. Although Mizoguchi made the film in the direction of realism, the film seems to be filled with elements of...

Extended Reading

Sansho the Bailiff quotes

  • Taro: Even children as young as you are sold and bought, treated like animals, and nobody questions it. What a horrible world.

  • Taro: [to Zushio] I found that humans have little sympathy for things that don't directly concern them. They're ruthless. Unless those hearts can be changed, the world you dream of cannot come true. If you wish to live honestly with your conscience, keep close to the Buddha.