8 Songs For Sansho The Bailiff Comments

The following 8 poems entitled “Songs for Sansho the Bailiff” is a series I wrote based on the film “Sansho the Bailiff “ (1954) by Kenji Mizoguchi.
Set in medieval Japan, the film tells the tragic tale of a family that lives by the father’s ideal that one should be just to others, even if that goodness is inconvenient to oneself. The family is separated and endures all sorts of suffering in living this ideal.
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