Gate of Hell (1953)
Note: this print runs 115 minutes against a recorded 88 minutes. It is the best copy we have found; we keep looking for a complete print.
With Machiko Kyō, Jun Tazaki, Kazuo Hasegawa, Isao Yamagata, Masao Shimizu, Yatarō Kurokawa, Koreya Senda, Ryōsuke Kagawa
Directed by Teinosuke Kinugasa
Gate of Hell (Japanese: 地獄門, Hepburn: Jigokumon) is a 1953 Japanese jidaigeki 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. Filmed using Eastmancolor, Gate of Hell was Daiei Film's first color film and the first Japanese color film to be released outside Japan. It was digitally restored in 2011 by the National Film Center of the National Museum of Modern Art, Tokyo and Kadokawa Shoten Co., in cooperation with NHK. It was based on the play Kesa's Husband by Kan Kikuchi.
Synopsis from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA. Streaming from YouTube.
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