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Information
- A.k.a.
- Sansho the Bailiff
- Year
- 1954
- Runtime
- 124 min.
- Director
- Kenji Mizoguchi
- Genre
- Drama
- Rating *
- 8.4
- Votes *
- 9,510
- Checks
- 3,440
- Favs
- 569
- Dislikes
- 21
- Favs/checks
- 16.5% (1:6)
- Favs/dislikes
- 27:1
Top comments
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Paul
"I have seen 'Sansho' only once, a decade ago, emerging from the cinema a broken man but calm in my conviction that I had never seen anything better; I have not dared watch it again, reluctant to ruin the spell, but also because the human heart was not designed to weather such an ordeal." - Anthony Lane, film critic The New Yorker 13 years 4 months ago -
TheGallopingGhost
That Anthony Lane quote is spot on. Watch this when you have plenty of time to pay attention because you will probably never watch it again. 12 years 7 months ago -
UnEnfantPerdu
Oh Lord What have I just witnessed. Dont think I've seen anything as beautiful or as brutal. 8 years 10 months ago
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