Japanese Hell

Japanese Hell

102 mins | Horror | Jan. 1, 1999

From the king of the Japanese cult movie, Teruo Ishii! A controversial film in which actual cases that rocked modern-day Japan—including the sarin gas attack by the Aum Shinrikyo Cult—are dramatized with gruesome detail as their perpetrators stand trial in Hell. An angst-ridden girl, Rika, is carried off to Hell by an old woman she meets in a neighborhood park. There she gets a first-hand look at the excruciating agony of those found guilty—by Lucifer himself—of committing heinous crimes during their time on Earth.

Japanese Hell

102 mins | Horror | Jan. 1, 1999

Japanese Hell
From the king of the Japanese cult movie, Teruo Ishii! A controversial film in which actual cases that rocked modern-day Japan—including the sarin gas attack by the Aum Shinrikyo Cult—are dramatized with gruesome detail as their perpetrators stand trial in Hell. An angst-ridden girl, Rika, is carried off to Hell by an old woman she meets in a neighborhood park. There she gets a first-hand look at the excruciating agony of those found guilty—by Lucifer himself—of committing heinous crimes during their time on Earth.
IMDb rating 4.7
Producers
Original title 地獄
Directors Kentaro Muramatsu, Teruo Ishii
Writers Teruo Ishii

Cast

Mutsumi Fujita

as Akiko

Hisayoshi Hirayama

as Tsutomu Miyajima

Yôko Satomi

as Miyako Tazawa

Kenpachirō Satsuma

as Ao oni (Blue Ogre)

Kinako Satō

as Rika (as Miki Satô)

Ryûji Takasaki

as Aka oni (Red Ogre)

Tetsurō Tamba

as Asu Shino

Chiho Yoshida

as Satomi