Sansho the Bailiff Reviews
Film4
an exceptional film, telling its complicated story in simple images, and creating order from the worst kind of moral chaos.
Antagony & Ecstasy
You are well aware at every moment that you are watching something that has been assembled with utmost precision.
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| Original Score: 10/10
Combustible Celluloid
Serious as a heart attack and so emotionally wrenching that it's almost difficult to watch.
Scene-Stealers.com
It illuminates the human condition and gives you plenty of time to think. It is the nature of nature to show no mercy, but mercy is inherent to the nature of human beings, even when it seems buried under loads of suffering.
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| Original Score: 3/4
Ozus' World Movie Reviews
It's a masterpiece in its simplicity of telling a compelling story and its depth of understanding the human condition.
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| Original Score: A+
Parallax View
Mizoguchi is the poet laureate of Japanese cinema, gracefully exploring the battered but resilient souls in the cruel worlds of Japan's feudal past and present.
Film and Felt
A richly layered masterpiece, Sanshô the Bailiff deserves a spot near the highest pantheon of world cinema.
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| Original Score: 98/100
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