Sansho the Bailiff - Dudley Andrew and Carole Cavanaugh (BFI Film Classics) Latin America examines its initial box office

examines its initial box office failure and subsequent cult status

Willem Dafoe

in a Japan ravaged by civil war between rivalling shogunates

- Interview with film scholar Ian Christie - 1961 audio interview with director- Hurricane Kalatazov (2009) documentary on the Georgian director's complex relationship with the Soviet government- Essay by critic Chris Fujiwara

Sansho the Bailiff - Dudley Andrew and Carole Cavanaugh (BFI Film Classics) Latin America examines its initial box office'Sansho the Bailiff by Dudley Andrew and Carole Cavanaugh' (BFI Film Classics paperback) Kenji Mizoguchi's heartbreaking tragedy is considered in new light by Andrew and Cavanaugh; whose joint expertise make for fascinating insights into the Japanese culture which inspired it and the art of the film itself, and offer compelling contemporary paralells.