Shigeru Amachi, Youichi Numata, Utako Mitsuya. Based on the original concept by Sosuke Kasane. Originally released as a motion picture in 1960. Special features: New, restored high-definition digital transfer; "Building the inferno", a new documentary on director Nobuo Nakagawa and the making of the film, featuring exclusive interviews with actor Youichi Numata, screenwriter Ichiro Miyagawa, Nakagawa collaborators Chiho Katsura and Kensuke Suzuki and director Kiyoshi Kurosawa; theatrical trailer; galleries of posters from selected Nakagawa and Shintoho Studios films; new essay by noted Asian cinema critic Chuck Stephens.
Summary:
A university student haunted by a dark alter ego and surrounded by a web of deaths is sent on a tour of hell in which he and innumerable other people suffer a variety of gruesome torments.
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