Sansho the Bailiff

 

Year: 1954

Time: 124 min.

 

Series: The Criterion Collection

Edition #: 386

Release Date: Tuesday, 22 May 2007

MSRP: $39.95

 

DVD

1 Disc

1.33:1

Japanese Dolby Digital Mono 1.0

Subtitles: English

Region 1

 

 Audio commentary featuring Japanese-literature scholar Jeffrey Angles   Interviews with critic Tadao Sato, assistant director Tokuzo Tanaka, and actress Kyoko Kagawa on the making of the film and its lasting importance   Booklet featuring an essay by scholar Mark Le Fanu and two versions of the story on which the film is based: Ogai Mori’s 1915 “Sansho the Steward” and an earlier oral variation in written form