The Pepper Doctor

This film (drama)Also known as山椒大夫，is aJapanProducerwomen sex，At1954Released in year 。The dialogue language isJapanese，Current Douban rating8.1(For reference only)。

At the end of the Heian period, the honest and benevolent governor of Iwashiro, Hiraie (played by Masao Shimizu), is demoted and sent to Chikuzen after being schemed against by colleagues for disobeying the court's orders to aid disaster victims. Seven years later, Hiraie's wife, Tamaki (played by Kinuyo Tanaka), sets off for Chikuzen with their 13-year-old son, Kushi-o (played by Masahiko Katō), their 8-year-old daughter, Anju (played by Keiko Enami), and their maid, Obatake (played by Chieko Naniwa), in search of her husband. A mother and her orphaned children, left without support, fall victim to human traffickers in Echigo. Obatake dies, Tamaki is sold to a brothel in Sado, and the two children are sold to the Pepper Doctor (played by Eitarō Shindō) in Dan. Over ten years, the siblings endure inhumane suffering. Upon learning that their mother is in Sado, Kushi-o (played by Kiyoshi Nakajō) plans to escape from this hellhole. Anju (played by Kyōko Kagawa) sacrifices herself to help her brother, who, after enduring hardships, gains his freedom and decides to go to the capital to appeal for his family's injustice... This film is adapted from a novel by Ogai Mori and won the Silver Lion at the 1954 Venice Film Festival.