Sansho the Bailiff

A virtuous governor is banished by a feudal lord to a far-off province. His wife and children are sent to live with her brother. They are sold by slave traders to a manorial estate in which slaves are brutalized. The children grow to young adulthood at the slave camp. Zushiō is ordered to take an older woman, Namiji, out of the camp to be left to die in the wilderness due to her sickness. Anju, a slave girl from Sado, tries to convince him to escape, but he refuses, citing the difficulty and their lack of money. He is offered the post of the