Gate of Hell (1953)
Jigokumon
The most honored screen import in a decade!
89 min
Japan, 1159. Moritō, a brave samurai, performs a heroic act by rescuing the lovely Kesa during a violent uprising. Moritō falls in love with her, but becomes distraught when he finds out that she is married.
- Release date
- October 31, 1953
- Country of origin
- Japan
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Cast
- Kazuo Hasegawa as Morito Endô
- Machiko Kyô as Kesa
- Isao Yamagata as Wataru Watanabe
- Yatarō Kurokawa as Shigemori
- Kôtarô Bandô as Rokurô
- Jun Tazaki as Kogenta
- Koreya Senda as Gen Kiyomori
- Masao Shimizu as Nobuyori
- Tatsuya Ishiguro as Yachûta
- Kenjirō Uemura as Masanaka
- Gen Shimizu as Saburōsuke
- Michiko Araki as Mano
- Yoshie Minami as Tone
- Kikue Môri as Sawa
- Ryōsuke Kagawa as Yasutada
- Shinobu Araki as Iesada
- Kunitarō Sawamura as Moritada
- Kanji Koshiba as Munemori
- Fujio Harumoto as Kanefusa
- Taiji Tonoyama as Kakisuke
- Hiroshi Mizuno as Otoami
- Shōzō Nanbu as Sadafusa
- Shintarô Nanjô as Tanenari
- Toshiaki Konoe as Masazumi
- Ryūzaburō Mitsuoka as Sadachika
- Seishirō Hara as Mitsusada
- Saburô Date as Tomoyuki
- Yukio Horikita as Heita
- Takaji Fukui as Naganobu
- Fumihiko Yokoyama as Giheiji
Crew
- Teinosuke Kinugasa · Director
- Kan Kikuchi · Writer
- Teinosuke Kinugasa · Writer
- Masaichi Nagata · Writer
- Masaichi Nagata · Producer
- Yasushi Akutagawa · Composer
- Kōhei Sugiyama · Cinematographer
- Shigeo Nishida · Editor
- Hiroshi Ozawa · Production designer