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- Program Title: Jigoku
- EASC Code: JJ-36
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- Region/Country: Japan
- Language: Japanese
- Subtitles: English
- Subject: Movie & TV Drama, Fiction
- Program Type: Feature
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- Release Date: 1960
- Running Time: 101 min.
- Color or BW: Color
- Program Abstract: Shocking, outrageous, and poetic, Jigoku (Hell, aka The Sinners of Hell) is the most innovative creation of Nbuo Nakagawa, the father of the Japanese horror film. After a young theology student flees a hit-and-run accident, he is plagued by both his own guilt-ridden conscience and a mysterious, diabolical doppelganger. But all possible escape routes lead straight to hell--literally. In ths gloriously gory final third of the film, Nakagawa offers up his vision of the underworld in a tour de force of tortue and degradation. A striking departure from traditional Japanese ghost stories, Jigoku, with its truly eye-popping and -gouging, imagery, created aftershocks that are still reverberating in contemporary world horror cinema.
- Data Entry Date: 8/10/2007
