# Portrait of Hell (1969)

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**Original title**: *地獄変*
**Runtime**: 95 min
**Genres**: Drama, Horror
**Directed by**: Shirō Toyoda
**Written by**: Toshio Yasumi
**Starring**: Tatsuya Nakadai, Kinnosuke Nakamura, Yōko Naitō, Shun Ōide, Hideyo Amamoto, Yoshirō Uchida

## Synopsis (in-house rewrite)

Heian era winter dusk lanterns glow beside a darkening lake a painter's brush scratches canvas 
a Korean artist clashes with his ruthless patron 
Shirō Toyoda brings a haunting darkness to this 1969 drama.

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