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Director:

Nobuo Nakagawa

Writers:

Nobuo Nakagawa (written by) &
Ichirô Miyagawa (written by)

Contact:

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Release Date:

30 July 1960 (Japan) more

Genre:

Horror more

Plot:

A graduate-school student has a friend who is pure evil. His friend and he are out driving one night... more | add synopsis

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NewsDesk:

Nifff 2008 - Hideo Nakata on Nobuo Nakagawa & Amityville Horror
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User Comments:

Hell is equally life and afterlife more (25 total)


Cast

  (Cast overview, first billed only)
Shigeru Amachi ... Shirô Shimizu
Utako Mitsuya ... Yukiko / Sachiko
Yôichi Numata ... Tamura
Hiroshi Hayashi ... Gôzô Shimizu
Jun Ôtomo ... Ensai Taniguchi
Akiko Yamashita ... Kinuko
Kiyoko Tsuji ... Kyôichi's Mother
Fumiko Miyata ... Mrs. Yajima
Torahiko Nakamura ... Professor Yajima
Kimie Tokudaiji ... Ito Shimizu
Akiko Ono ... Yoko
Tomohiko Ohtani ... Dr. Kusama (as Tomohiko Ôtani)
Kôichi Miya ... Journalist Akagawa
Sakutaro Yamakawa ... Fisherman (as Sakutarô Yamakawa)
Rei Ishikawa ... Old Man with Tatoo
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Additional Details

Also Known As:

Hell (USA) (original subtitled version)
Jigoku (USA) (DVD title)
Story of the Great 8-Tombed Hell
The Sinners of Hell (International: English title)
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Runtime:

101 min

Country:

Japan

Language:

Japanese

Color:

Color (Eastmancolor)

Aspect Ratio:

2.35 : 1 more

Sound Mix:

Mono (Westrex Recording System)


Fun Stuff

Trivia:

The first movie which used elements of 'gore' as FX. more

Quotes:

Tamura: So you want to turn me in for manslaughter?
Shiro Shimizu: We're the ones who killed him. We caused it. Let's go together. Please.
Tamura: That might ease your conscience, but I'm not interested. It'd be stupid. He was drunk. He ran into the road. It was basically suicide. Besides, he was just some yakuza scum. He's not worth the best years of our lives.
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Movie Connections:

Featured in Building the Inferno: Nobuo Nakagawa and the Making of 'Jigoku' (2006) (V) more

Soundtrack:

Comin' through the Rye more


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9 out of 14 people found the following comment useful.
Hell is equally life and afterlife, 24 August 2000
5/10
Author: rlcsljo from Hollywood, ca

This movie spends half of its time in the real world and half in the afterlife. During the first half you ask "where the hell is hell anyway?". After it goes to the "real" hell, you realize that hell is all the things that went undone in the mortal coil.

You realize that if you don't want to live in hell later, don't live in "hell" now.

A great psychedelic trip without psychedelic trappings.

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