L'enfer

Towering clouds of sulphur overwhelm a flaming gate. Ghosts in bloodied kimono shuffle past a gong that never stops tolling. Seven living souls arrive too late, each bearing a corpse’s weight of guilt. One by one their sins unspool—murderers, cuckolds, betrayed lovers—all led by the tolling gong toward a lake of boiling heads. Nakagawa’s spectral parade leaves the land of the quick looking like a gentle dream.

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Nobuo Nakagawa directed L'enfer in 1960. See Nobuo Nakagawa's full filmography, where to start with Nobuo Nakagawa, or where to go after you've seen everything by Nobuo Nakagawa.

L'enfer was released in 1960 (JA original-language production), with a runtime of 99 minutes.