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Key Information
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| Directors: |
Kenji Mizoguchi |
| Stars: |
Kinuyo Tanaka |
| Actors: |
Eitar? Shind??2005771234 |
| Genre: |
Foreign Films |
| Subgenre: |
Slavery · Classic · Drama · Japanese |
| MPAA Rating: |
Not Rated |
| Available Formats: |
VHS |
| UPC: |
715515023627 |
| Release Date: |
1954 |
| Running Time: |
2hr 12min |
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Languages
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| Original Language: |
Japanese |
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DVD Editions
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Format: DVD, 2hr 4min
Release Company: Criterion Collection (May 15, 2007)
UPC: 715515023627 |
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VHS Editions
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Format: VHS, 2hr 0min |
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Professional Reviews
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(01/01/2008, p.163, Philip Kemp): 5 stars out of 5 -- "Mizoguchi melds cool visual grace with intensity and emotion..." |
| More Information |
| Details: |
This stunning Kenji Mizoguchi masterpiece reaches back to a Japanese folk tale of the 12th century to depict the barbarism of "a dark age, when people didn't know how to be human." The film stars Yoshiaki Hanayagi as Zushi?, the young son of a provincial governor Masauji Taira (Masao Shimizu). A man of outstanding compassion and probity, he impresses on his son the notion that "without mercy, a man is not a man." When the governor's attempts to protect the rights of regional farmers clash with the goals of the feudal regime, he's sent into exile, and forced to leave his family behind. A few years later Zushi?, his mother, Tamaki (Kinuyo Tanaki), and sister, Anju (Ky?ko Kagawa), begin a long journey to reunite with Masauji, only to be waylaid be kidnappers en route. The bandits sell Tamaki to a brothel on an isolated island and the children to corrupt official Sansh? (Eitar? Shind?) as slaves. As the years pass, Anju lapses into passivity while Zushi? becomes hardened by the brutality that has become thei... |
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