Classics Tip
Sansho Dayu/Gion Bayashi R2 (Uk Import) - Releasedatum: 19 november 2007
Double bill feauring two classic Japanese movies.
Set in Heian era (11th century) Japan, 'Sansho Dayu' (1954)) follows an aristocratic woman, Tamaki (Tanaka Kinuyo) and her two children, Zushio (Hanayagi Yoshiaki) and Anju (Kagawa Kyoko), who are parted from Tamaki's husband when he finds himself in trouble with the feudal powers for treating peasants with kindness. When the children are kidnapped and sold as slaves to the eponymous Sansho (Shindo Eitaro), each family member's life is set on its own tragic course. Adapted by director, Mizoguchi, from a short story by Ogai Mori, this film won the Silver Lion at Venice in 1954.
'Gion Bayashi' (1953) is a drama set in the world of the courtesan. Eiko (Wakao Ayako) is a 16-year old orphan, while Miyoharu (Kogure Michiyo) is the geisha who agrees to be her mentor.
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