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Sanshô Dayû (Sansho the Bailiff): BFI Film Classics (Paperback)

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A study of Mizoguchi's 1954 masterpiece Sanshô Dayû in the BFI Film Classics series

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Kenji Mizoguchi's masterpiece Sanshô Dayû (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.

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SKU 9781838719326
Author(s) Dudley Andrew & Carole Cavanaugh
Publisher(s) Bloomsbury / BFI
Format Paperback
Original publication date 28/05/2020
Number of pages 88
BFICID_ID 150052894
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