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Jigoku: Japanese Hell

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Jigoku: Japanese Hell
Directed byTeruo Ishii
Written byTeruo Ishii
Distributed byOP Eiga
Release date
  • 20 November 1999 (1999-11-20) (Japan)
Running time
102 minutes
CountryJapan
LanguageJapanese

Jigoku: Japanese Hell (地獄, "Hell") is a 1999 Japanese horror film, directed by Teruo Ishii.[1][2]

Plot

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Two young girls get a chance to see what it would it be like to be in Hell and while on this tour of Damnation they see the story of what happens to a man who escaped punishment from the court when he raped and murdered several little girls.

Then their own story unfolds before their very eyes. The story of an insane cult in which the blind leader demands tribute from the women and plan mass murder in the belief that the world will be ending soon and they need to help it along.

Cast

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  • Mutsumi Fujita as Akiko
  • Hisayoshi Hirayama as Tsutomu Miyajima
  • Michiko Maeda as Enma Daiô
  • Yôko Satomi as Miyako Tazawa
  • Kenpachirô Satsuma as Ao oni (Blue Ogre)
  • Kinako Satô as Rika (as Miki Satô)
  • Ryûji Takasaki as Aka oni (Red Ogre)
  • Tetsurô Tanba as Asu Shino
  • Toshimichi Tasaki
  • Masato Tsujioka
  • Chiho Yoshida as Satomi

References

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  1. ^ 地獄. Agency for Cultural Affairs (in Japanese). Retrieved 2011-09-21.
  2. ^ 石井輝男 怒涛の30本勝負. 澁谷文化 (in Japanese). Retrieved 2021-01-15.
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