The Sinners of Hell

1960 [JAPANESE]

Action / Crime / Drama / Horror / Thriller

12
Rotten Tomatoes Critics - Rotten 66% · 2 reviews
Rotten Tomatoes Audience - Upright 66% · 1K ratings
IMDb Rating 6.7/10 10 4994 5K

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Plot summary

A group of sinners involved in interconnected tales of murder, revenge, deceit and adultery all meet at the Gates of Hell.

Director

Nobuo Nakagawa Photo
Nobuo Nakagawa

Top cast

Kôichi Miya Photo
Kôichi Miya as Journalist Akagawa
Jun Ôtomo Photo
Jun Ôtomo as Ensai Taniguchi
Yôichi Numata Photo
Yôichi Numata as Tamura
Utako Mitsuya Photo
Utako Mitsuya as Yukiko / Sachiko
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926.06 MB
1280*544
Japanese 2.0
NR
Subtitles fr   us  
23.976 fps
1 hr 40 min
Seeds 2
930.2 MB
1280*544
Japanese 2.0
NR
Subtitles fr   us  
23.976 fps
1 hr 41 min
Seeds ...
1.68 GB
1920*816
Japanese 2.0
NR
Subtitles fr   us  
23.976 fps
1 hr 40 min
Seeds 15
1.69 GB
1920*816
Japanese 2.0
NR
Subtitles fr   us  
23.976 fps
1 hr 41 min
Seeds 3

Movie Reviews

Reviewed by Watuma

The forerunner

Reviewed by gbill-74877 7 / 10

Surreal, nightmarish, and campy

Certainly not a film for everyone, 'Jigoku' combines visions of Dante, surreal art, nightmarish tortures, and of course, Japanese camp. Director Nobuo Nakagawa presents it all in a dark, dreamlike way, shocking us (mildly) with the death of characters in the first part of the movie, and ramping this up to really shocking us with his vision of the torments of hell. It's in these that the film is at its best. There are the scenes of gore which may have you cringing, but the truly memorable scenes are those which are artistic, such as the field of hands reaching up out of the ground, and the whirling torment of people circling in a frenzy. In Nakagawa's hell, there is both physical pain and mental anguish, as people endlessly seek loved ones or slog through rivers of pus and waste. Where the film is weaker is in providing reasons for why all of the characters end up in hell in the first place. While the initial setup of a hit and run accident is pretty tight, expanding this to a broader set of characters gets a little contrived. Through it all, the character of the dark and sociopathic friend is played well by Yôichi Numata, who stands out in the cast.
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