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Jigoku

Jigoku

Nobuo Nakagawa, 1960

Spine #352

Picked by 2 guests

Horror / Drama

Criterion Letterboxd TMDB

Directed by Nobuo Nakagawa

Written by Ichirō Miyagawa, Nobuo Nakagawa

Cinematography Mamoru Morita

Edited by Toshio Goto

Cast Shigeru Amachi, Utako Mitsuya, Yōichi Numata, Hiroshi Hayashi, Kanjūrō Arashi, Jun Ōtomo, Akiko Yamashita, Kiyoko Tsuji

Picked by

Gaspar Noe
Gaspar Noe director

“Oh, this one. One of the most visual Japanese movies ever. I already have the DVD but it's more colorful and crazier than any Dario Argento movie or any Mario Bava movie. There's one masterpiece in Japanese horror cinema from the '60s, this is the one.”

Hideo Kojima
Hideo Kojima cinematographer

“[Translated] Yes, Nobuo Nakagawa's Jigoku. There's a movie called Tokaido Yotsuya Kaidan, an Oiwa-san movie. I saw it as a child and it traumatized me. When I saw it as an adult, it was a very artistic film. I became a fan of Nakagawa and Jigoku is about hell. The imagery is quite surreal, so I'd like you to see it.”