Jigoku
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 doppelgänger. 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.
Special Features
- New, restored high-definition digital transfer
- Building the Inferno, a new documentary on director Nobuo Nakagawa and the making of the film, featuring exclusive interviews with actor Yoichi Numata, screenwriter Ichiro Miyagawa, Nakagawa collaborators Chiho Katsura and Kensuke Suzuki, and Cure and Doppelganger director Kiyoshi Kurosawa
- Theatrical trailer
- Galleries of posters from selected Nakagawa and Shintoho Studios films
- New and improved English subtitle translation
- PLUS: A new essay by noted Asian-cinema critic Chuck Stephens
New cover by Lucien S. Y. Yang
Special Features
- New, restored high-definition digital transfer
- Building the Inferno, a new documentary on director Nobuo Nakagawa and the making of the film, featuring exclusive interviews with actor Yoichi Numata, screenwriter Ichiro Miyagawa, Nakagawa collaborators Chiho Katsura and Kensuke Suzuki, and Cure and Doppelganger director Kiyoshi Kurosawa
- Theatrical trailer
- Galleries of posters from selected Nakagawa and Shintoho Studios films
- New and improved English subtitle translation
- PLUS: A new essay by noted Asian-cinema critic Chuck Stephens
New cover by Lucien S. Y. Yang
Cast
- Shigeru Amachi
- Shiro Shimizu
- Utako Mitsuya
- Yukiko/Sachiko
- Yoichi Numata
- Tamura
- Torahiko Nakamura
- Professor Yajima
- Fumiko Miyata
- Mrs. Yajima
- Hiroshi Hayashi
- Gozo Shimizu
- Kimie Tokudaiji
- Ito Shimizu
- Akiko Yamashita
- Kinuko
- Jun Otomo
- Ensai Taniguchi
- Tomohiko Otani
- Dr. Kusama
- Koichi Miya
- Journalist Akagawa
Credits
- Director
- Nobuo Nakagawa
- Screenplay
- Ichiro Miyagawa
- Screenplay
- Nobuo Nakagawa
- Producer
- Mitsugu Okura
- Cinematography
- Mamoru Morita
- Production design
- Haruyasu Kurosawa
- Editing
- Toshio Goto
- Music
- Chumei Watanabe
- Lighting
- Hiroshi Ishimori
- Sound
- Kihachiro Nakai
- Assistant director
- Keinosuke Tsuchiya
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