Hell (Jigoku)(1960)

Chilling cautionary tale of what happens when you get into two separate car accidents that aren’t your fault and your friend is an evil cool guy.

Branson Reese

Well, that was disturbing! Didn't expect this to mess me up as much as it did but here we are. So ahead of its time visually, too. It's times like this where I just hate ratings bc while it's very flawed, I can't deny how into it I was and how much it, again, disturbed me.…

Karsten

Jigoku is without a doubt one of the most visually and thematically pessimistic movies in history. In the Jigoku world of extreme despair and torment, everyone sins and everyone deserves to be tortured forever in hell, and it certainly leaves nothing to the imagination when…

nick

Guys be like “I know a spot” and then take you to place full of fire and smoke and burning and torture and anguish where you suffer and burn and choke and scream and run and cry forever and ever ’til the end of time.

CinemaVoid 🏴‍☠️

eat that pork! drink that booze!

pd187

melodrama combined with exposed body parts with a dash of unsettling dark laughter. it's pretty unlike anything i've ever seen before. jigoku understands that hell is a state of mind, not a physical place. the protagonist, shiro, is already there from the opening shot.…

kailey

life is hell then you die and go to a different, prettier hell

chelsea

Jigoku is an enigma. There's no denying that it's a visually striking piece of art. It takes risks. It's provocative. It's vibrant and colorful. The cinematography and editing are stunning at times. There is also one of the most shocking depictions of hell that has ever…

J. K.

67 My first film from Nobuo Nakagawa, and certainly not the last. The evocative, audacious imagery is honestly lower on my list of elements to discuss, because as great as Jigoku looks, it's the harrowing sound-design and depiction of sin in all its complexity that…

SilentDawn