Top billed cast

1. 

   Kinuyo Tanaka

   Tamaki

2. 

   Yoshiaki Hanayagi

   Zushiô

3. 

   Kyōko Kagawa

   Anju

4. 

   Eitarō Shindō

   Sanshô dayû

5. 

   Ichirō Sugai

   Minister of Justice

6. 

   Bontarō Miake

   Kichiji

7. 

   Yōko Kozono

   Kohagi

8. 

   Chieko Naniwa

   Ubatake

9. 

   Kikue Mōri

   Priestess

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Reviews

A review by CinemaSerf

Written by CinemaSerf on 2023-01-04

When a benign provincial governor tries to intervene to protect his people from the brutality of the military, he is stripped of his rank and banished. His wife and children are forced to follow him, on foot, some time later and hopelessly ill-equipped for that task they fall prey to people traffickers who split the family up. The young daughter and son soon find themselves bought by the eponymous character and forced into cruel manual labour that only his son "Taro" (Akitake Kôno) seems at all concerned about. Can he help? Can they manage to keep some semblance of their erstwhile decency and...read the rest

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Status
Released

Original Language
Japanese

Budget
$0.00

Revenue
$0.00

Keywords

• governor
• japan
• courtesan
• exile
• banishment
• prostitution
• compassion
• based on short story
• decree
• mercy
• feudal japan
• 11th century
• ancient japan