Jigoku [videorecording] / Hell / Shintoho Company, Ltd. ; a Mitsugu Okura production ; original concept by Sosuke Kasane ; screenplay by Nobuo Nakagawa and Ichiro Miyagawa ; directed by Nobuo Nakagawa.

Jigoku Hell / Shintoho Company, Ltd. ; a Mitsugu Okura production ; original concept by Sosuke Kasane ; screenplay by Nobuo Nakagawa and Ichiro Miyagawa ; directed by Nobuo Nakagawa. [videorecording] / Hell Also known as: Sinners of hell Shin Tåohåo Kabushiki Kaisha ; såoshiki åOkura Mitsugi ; kikaku Kasane Såosuke ; kyakuhon Nakagawa Nobuo, Miyagawa Ichiråo ; kantoku Nakagawa Nobuo = - Widescreen. - [Irvington, N.Y.] : Criterion Collection, c2006. - 1 videodisc (101 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 booklet (unp. : col. ill. ; 18 cm.) - Criterion collection ; 352 . - Criterion collection (DVD videodiscs) ; 352. .

Originally produced as a motion picture in 1960. Booklet includes an essay by Asian cinema critic Chuck Stephens. Special features: "Building the inferno : Nobuo Nakagawa and the making of 'Jigoku'" (documentary film, 2006, 39 min.); original theatrical trailer; Nobuo Nakagawa poster gallery; Shintoho Studios poster gallery.

Chinematography, Morita Mamoru ; music, Watanabe Chåumei. Chinematography, Morita Mamoru ; music, Watanabe Chåumei.

Shigeru Amachi, Utako Mitsuya, Yoichi Numata.

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 doppelgèanger. But all possible escape routes lead straight to hell... literally.


DVD; region 1, NTSC; widescreen (2.35:1) presentation, ehanced for (16:9) televisions; Dolby digital mono.


In Japanese with optional English subtitles.

1559409991 9781559409995

715515020121

CC1651D Criterion Collection


Hell--Drama.
Guilt--Drama.
Conscience--Drama.
Cine Japonés (inglés)


Horror films.
Feature films.
Horror films.
Feature films--Japan.

CM DVD 01210