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Sansho Dayu (Sansho the Bailiff)
Contributor(s): Andrew, Dudley (Author), Cavanaugh, Carole (Author)
ISBN: 1838719326     ISBN-13: 9781838719326
Publisher: British Film Institute
OUR PRICE:   $14.36  
Product Type: Paperback
Published: May 2020
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BISAC Categories:
- Performing Arts | Film - History & Criticism
Physical Information: 0.3" H x 5.4" W x 7.4" (0.40 lbs) 96 pages
 
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Kenji Mizoguchi's masterpiece Sansh Day (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.