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- Movie: The Sinners of Hell
- Romaji: Jigoku
- Japanese:
- Director: Nobuo Nakagawa
- Writer: Nobuo Nakagawa, Ichiro Miyagawa
- Producer:
- Cinematographer:
- Release Date: July 30, 1960
- Runtime: 98 min
- Language: Japanese
- Country: Japan
Plot
Shocking, outrageous, and poetic, Jigoku (Hell, a.k.a. The Sinners of Hell) is the most innovative creation from Nobuo 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 the gloriously gory final third of the film, Nakagawa offers up his vision of the underworld in a tour de force of torture 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.
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