Gate of Hell (film)
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 Original Japanese poster |
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| Directed by | Teinosuke Kinugasa |
| Produced by | Masaichi Nagata |
| Written by | Teinosuke Kinugasa |
| Starring | Kazuo Hasegawa Machiko Kyō |
| Music by | Yasushi Akutagawa |
| Cinematography | Kōhei Sugiyama |
| Editing by | Shigeo Nishida |
| Distributed by | Daiei Studios |
| Release date(s) | 1953-10-31 |
| Running time | 86 minutes |
| Country | Japan |
| Language | Japanese |
Gate of Hell (地獄門 Jigokumon, lit. hell gate) is a 1953 film directed by Teinosuke Kinugasa. It tells the story of a samurai (Kazuo Hasegawa) who tries to marry a woman (Machiko Kyō) he rescues, only to discover that she is already married to someone else. Filmed using Eastmancolor film, Gate of Hell was both Daiei's first color film and the first Japanese color film to be released outside Japan.
Gate of Hell won the Palme d'Or grand prize award at the 1954 Cannes Film Festival,[1] a 1955 Academy Honorary Award for "Best Foreign Language Film first released in the United States during 1954", along with the Academy Award for Best Costume Design, Color, and the 1954 New York Film Critics Circle Award for "Best Foreign Language Film". Despite public demand, the film remains unavailable on DVD, along with virtually all of the director's other works.
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[edit] Cast
- Kazuo Hasegawa - Moritoh Enda
- Machiko Kyō - Lady Kesa
- Isao Yamagata - Wataru Watanabe
- Yatarō Kurokawa - Shigemori
- Kōtarō Bandō - Rokuroh
- Jun Tazaki - Kogenta
- Koreya Senda - Gen Kiyomori
- Masao Shimizu - Nobuyori
- Tatsuya Ishiguro - Yachuta
- Kenjirō Uemura - Masanaka
- Gen Shimizu - Saburosuke
- Michiko Araki - Mano
- Yoshie Minami - Tone
- Kikue Mōri - Sawa
- Ryōsuke Kagawa - Yasutada
[edit] See also
[edit] References
- ^ "Festival de Cannes: Gate of Hell". festival-cannes.com. http://www.festival-cannes.com/en/archives/ficheFilm/id/3843/year/1954.html. Retrieved 2009-01-25.
[edit] External links
- Gate of Hell at the Internet Movie Database
- Jigokumon at AllRovi
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