Jigoku
Jigoku
(c)KOKUSAI HOEI
(c)KOKUSAI HOEI
- Release Date
- July, 30th, 1960
- Running Time
- 101 min
- Genre
- Feature
- Color
- Color
- Screening Format
- -
- Screen Size
- Cinema Scope (1:2.35)
[ Directed by ]
[ Produced by ]
- OKURA Mitsugi ── Executive Producer
[ Cast ]
- AMACHI Shigeru ── SHIMIZU Shiro
- NUMATA Yoichi ── TAMURA
- NAKAMURA Torahiko ── Professor YAJIMA
[ Staff ]
- NAKAGAWA Nobuo ── Screenplay
- MIYAGAWA Ichiro ── Screenplay
- MORITA Mamoru ── Cinematography
- GOTO Toshio ── Editor
- WATANABE Chumei ── Sound
- KUROSAWA Haruyasu ── Production Design
[ Production Company ]
SHINTOHO
[ Distributor (Japan) ]
INTERNATIONAL TELEVISION FILMS
[ Story ]
A bold concoction of a work, Nakagawa's Jigoku looks beyond Eastern values to incorporate Western classics such as Goethe's Faust and Dante's Divine Comedy among its tapestry of influences. When his friend Tamura commits a hit-and-run, it sets in motion a series of events that culminates with co-passenger, and unwitting accomplice to murder, Shiro descending to hell. The film's gruesome visuals – including images of humans with their skin peeled off to expose their skeleton and internal organs – predates the splatter films of Herschell Gordon Lewis.
Written by MIYAMOTO Noriaki
Translated by Adam Sutherland
[ Contact (International) ]
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