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You can watch Sansho the Bailiff (1954) for free on Darkroom.

In 11th-century feudal Japan, following the exile of an idealistic governor, his wife and children are separated by slave traders; the children, Zushio and Anju, are sold into brutal servitude under the cruel bailiff Sansho.

Can human dignity survive when children are stripped of their names and sold into the brutal machinery of feudal servitude? This sweeping epic finds profound beauty amidst the cruelty of 11th-century Japan, tracking a family's agonizing struggle to reunite.

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