# Jigoku (1960)

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**Original title**: *地獄*
**Runtime**: 99 min
**Genres**: Horror, Drama
**Directed by**: Nobuo Nakagawa
**Written by**: Nobuo Nakagawa, Ichirō Miyagawa
**Starring**: Shigeru Amachi, Utako Mitsuya, Yōichi Numata, Hiroshi Hayashi, Kanjūrō Arashi, Jun Ōtomo

## Synopsis (in-house rewrite)

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.

**Mood tags**: dread, gut-punch, surreal

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