Tuesday, September 27, 2016

236. Sansho the baillif (1954)


Country: Japan
Directed by Kenji Mizoguchi

Hands down one of the most beautiful, elegant, emotional, hearbreaking, poetical, magical - call it as you like- movies of all time, 'Sansho the baillif' is a film that you feel that are not words to praise it enough. What you can really say for such a masterpiece apart of you feel very lucky that you watched it? Well, Mizoguchi speaks volumes about the dark side of Japanese history, about the oppresion of woman, about the function of memory etc but the insane power of each one of the film's images is the main factor that makes the difference and it can no be discribed




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