880-01 Jigokumon [videorecording] / [Daiē Kabushiki Kaisha ; seisaku Nagata Masaichi ; kyakuhon kantoku Kinugasa Teinosuke] = Gate of hell / a Daiei production ; produced by Masaichi Nagata ; screenplay and direction by Teinosuke Kinugasa.
Format:
[videorecording] /
Publisher:
Public Media Home Vision/Home Vision Cinema, Public Media Home Vision/Home Vision Cinema,
Originally released as a Japanese motion picture in 1953. 880-02 Based on the story of "Kesa to ryōnin" by Kikuchi Hiroshi. Kazuo Hasegawa, Machiko Kyo, Isao Yamagata, Yataro Kurokawa, Kotaro Bando, Koreya Senda.
Summary:
The story of a samurai who falls in love with a married woman he guards during a palace uprising. She is horrified by his attentions and his love leads to tragic consequences. Based on a real crime committed in Japan in 1159.
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