Sansho the Bailiff (1954)
<div><i>Part of <a href="https://www.screeningroomkingston.com/bleak-week/">Bleak Week: Cinema of Despair</a>, a weeklong festival spotlighting some of the greatest films from around the world that explore the darkest sides of humanity.</i></div><div><i><br></i></div>Kenji Mizoguchi's masterpiece follows a governor's family torn apart in feudal Japan by a social order that treats human beings as property. A cornerstone of the postwar Japanese cinema that remade Western critics' understanding of the medium, it taught generations of filmmakers how to let suffering accumulate without sentimentalizing it. The children are forced into servitude under the brutal Sansho while their mother disappears into a different kind of bondage elsewhere, and the years pass with the quiet indifference of a system built to outlast everyone inside it.DramaPT2H4MRated 14A2026-06-15Kinuyo Tanaka
Yoshiaki Hanayagi
Kyōko Kagawa
Kenji Mizoguchi
Masaichi Nagata
Sansho the Bailiff (1954)"Sansho the Bailiff (1954)"Showtimes
June 15, 8:30 pm
June 17, 6:00 pm
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