If you loved The Big Shave, try Jigoku
A bridge between a film you've already seen and one most people haven't. Jigoku has roughly 3.3× fewer votes than The Big Shave — it's a deeper cut, not a mainstream recommendation. Here's what they share, and what the second one does that the first one doesn't.
What they share
Theyboth carry the dread mood tag, and they sit in Drama / Horror territory. If that's the register that drew you to The Big Shave, the second film will land in a comparable space — through a different lens.
What Jigoku is
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.

