Blu-ray Review: Sansho the Bailiff (Criterion Collection)
Based on a Japanese short story of the same name, Sansho the Bailiff depicts a world of inexorable cruelty. 11th century Japan is an era when, as the opening credits describe it: “mankind had not yet awakened as human beings.” Aside from a few wealthy landowners, people are treated like chattel, to be worked and […]