Country: Jordan
Year: 1954
Duration: 124'
Japan, the eleventh century, the Heian period. The two children of an exiled governor were separated from their mother after being kidnapped, sold as slaves to the cruel bailiff Sanshô, and grew up hoping to be reunited with their parents. When young Anju sacrifices herself so her beloved brother Zushio can escape, he swears he will return to the bailiff and get his revenge. Years later, after becoming an important administrator, Zushio pays a visit to the tyrant and removes him from office, after which he sets off in search of his mother. He finds her on a remote island, old and on the verge of madness.
In collaboration with The Japan Foundation.
Biography
film director
Kenji Mizoguchi
(Tokyo, 1898 - Kyoto, 1956) was a Japanese filmmaker. Considered one of the most important and influential directors worldwide, he, Akira Kurosawa, Yasujirō Ozu, and Masaki Kobayashi made Japanese cinema famous throughout the world. During the 1950s, he was a regular at the Venice Film Festival, where he won the Silver Lion three times, for The Life of Oharu (1952), Tales of Ugetsu (1953), and Sansho the Bailiff (1954).
FILMOGRAFIA
Ai ni yomigaeru hi (1923), Kokyō (1923), Seishun no yumeji (1923), Jōen no chimata (1923), Haizan no uta wa kanashi (1923), 813 (1923), Kiri no minato (1923), Haikyo no naka (1923), Yoru (1923), Chi to rei (1923), Tōge no uta (1923), Kanashiki hakuchi (1924), Akatsuki no shi (1924), Gendai no joō (1924), Jose wa tsuyoshi (1924), Jinkyō (1924), Shichimenchō no yukue (1924), Samidare zōshi (1924), Kanraku no onna (1924), Kyokubadan no joō (1924), Musen fusen (1925), Gakusō o idete (1925), Daichi wa hohoemu (1925), Shirayuri wa nageku (1925), Akai yōhi ni terasarete (1925), Gaijō Suketchi (1925), Ningen (1925), Furusato no uta (1925), Nogi taishō to Kuma-San (1925), Dōka ō (1926), Kaminingyō haru no sasayaki (1926), Shin ono ga tsumi (1926), Kyōren no onna shishō (1927), Kaikoku danji (1927), Kane (1927), Kō-on (1927), Jihi shinchō (1927), Hito no isshō (1928), Musume Kawaiya (1928), Nihonbashi (1929), Asahi wa gagayaku (1929), Tōkyō kōshinkyoku (1929), Tokai kōkyōgaku (1929), Furusato (1930), Tōjin okichi (1930), Shikamo karera wa yuku (1931), Toki no ujigami (1932), Manmō kenkoku no reimei (1932), Taki no shiraito (1933), Gion maturi (1933), Jinpōren (1935), Aizō tōge (1935), Orizuru osen (O-Sen delle cicogne di carta, 1935), Maria no Oyuki (1935), Gubijinsō (1935), Naniwa hika (Elegia di Osaka 1936), Gion no shimai (Le sorelle del Gion, 1936), Aien kyō (1937), Roei no uta (1938), Aa kokyō (1938), Zangiku monogatari (La storia dell’ultimo crisantemo, 1939), Naniwa onna (1940), Geidō ichidai otoko (1941), Genroku Chūshingura (La vendetta dei 47 ronin, 1941), Danjurō sandai (1944), Miyamoto Musashi (1944), Meitō bijomaru (1945), Hisshōka (1945), Jōsei no shōri (1946), Utamaro o meguru gonin no onna (Utamaro e le sue cinque mogli, 1946), Joyū Sumako no koi (1947), Yoru no onnatachi (Le donne della notte, 1948), Waga koi wa moenu (1949), Yuki fujin ezu (Il ritratto della signora Yuki, 1950), Oyōsama (1951), Musashino fujin (1951), Saikaku ichidai onna (Vita di O-Haru - Donna galante, 1952), Ugetsu monogatari (I racconti della luna pallida d’agosto, 1953), Gion bayashi (1953), Sanshō dayū (L’intendente Sansho, 1954), Uwasa no onna (Una donna di cui si parla, 1954), Chikamatsu monogatari (Gli amanti crocifissi, 1954), Yōkihi (L’imperatrice Yang Kwei-fei, 1955), Shin Heike monogatari (La nuova storia del clan Taira, 1955), Akasen chitai (La strada della vergogna, 1956).
Cast
& Credits
DIRECTOR: Kenji Mizoguchi. STORY: from the short story by Ogai Mori. SCREENPLAY: Fuji Yahiro, Yoshikata Yoda. CINEMATOGRAPHY: Kazuo Miyagawa. EDITING: Mitsuzô Miyata. PRODUCTION DESIGN: Hisakazu Tsuji. COSTUMES: Shima Yoshizane. MUSIC: Fumio Hayasaka, Kinshichi Kodera, Tamekichi Mochizuki. CAST: Kinuyo Tanaka, Yoshiaki Hanayagi, Kyōko Kagawa, Eitarô Shindô, Akitake Kôno. PRODUCER: Masaichi Nagata. PRODUCTION: Daiei Studios.
