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Sansho the Bailiff (1954): Scores Across IMDb, Rotten Tomatoes, Metacritic and TMDB

Sansho the Bailiff is a 1954 drama film directed by Kenji Mizoguchi. It scores 8.3 on IMDb, 100% on Rotten Tomatoes, 96 on Metacritic, 8.1 on TMDB. Audiences and critics disagree: scaled to 100, IMDb users give it 83 while Metacritic critics give it 96, a gap of 13 points in favor of critics. Ranked by confidence-weighted IMDb score, it is number 5 of 76 films from 1954 in our catalog and number 115 of 3,595 drama films.

Billed cast: Kinuyo Tanaka, Yoshiaki Hanayagi, Kyōko Kagawa, Eitarō Shindō, Ichirō Sugai, Bontarō Miake.

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