JIGOKU (1960) - (The Criterion Collection - #352) [DVD9] [2006]

Shocking, outrageous, and poetic, Jigoku (Hell, a.k.a. The Sinners of Hell) is the most innovative creation from Nobuo Nakagawa, the father of the Japanese horror film. After a young theology student flees a hit-and-run accident, he is plagued by both his own guilt-ridden conscience and a mysterious, diabolical doppelgänger. But all possible escape routes lead straight to hell—literally. In the gloriously gory final third of the film, Nakagawa offers up his vision of the underworld in a tour de force of torture and degradation. A striking departure from traditional Japanese ghost stories, Jigoku, with its truly eye-popping (and -gouging) imagery, created aftershocks that are still reverberating in contemporary world horror cinema.







MOVIE:
DIRECTOR: Nobuo Nakagawa
COUNTRY: Japan
YEAR: 1960

Cast
Shigeru Amachi
Utako Mitsuya
Yôichi Numata
Hiroshi Hayashi
Jun Ôtomo
Akiko Yamashita
Kiyoko Tsuji
Fumiko Miyata
Torahiko Nakamura


Credits
Director: Nobuo Nakagawa
Screenplay: Nobuo Nakagawa, Ichirô Miyagawa
Cinematography: Mamoru Morita
Production Design: Chian Kurosawa
Sound: Kihachiro Nakai
Editing: Toshio Gotô
Original Music: Michiaki Watanabe


DVD:
DVD RELEASE: September 19, 2006
STUDIO: Criterion
CATALOG: 352
SYSTEM: NTSC
SCREEN: 2.35:1
COLOR: Color
AUDIO: Japanese Dolby Digital Mono
SUBTITLES: English
RUNTIME (MOVIE): 101 minutes

EXTRACTION:
ENGINE: DVD Fab + Ultra ISO
DVD: 1 Full Dual-Layer DVD
FILE EXTENSION: Image (.ISO)
FILE SIZE: 7.25 GBs

Disc 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 Yoichi Numata, screenwriter Ichiro Miyagawa, Nakagawa collaborators Chiho Katsura and Kensuke Suzuki, and Cure and Doppelganger director Kiyoshi Kurosawa
* Theatrical trailer
* Galleries of posters from selected Nakagawa and Shintoho Studios films
* New and improved English subtitle translation
* Plus: A new essay by noted Asian-cinema critic Chuck Stephens







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