Gate of Hell

Release Date:

Dec 10, 1954

Running Time:

1:30

Genre:

Drama,Historical Drama,Romance

Director:

Teinosuke Kinugasa

Cast:

Machiko Kyo	Lady Kesa
Kazuo Hasegawa	Moritoh Enda
Isao Yamagata	Wataru Watanabe
Yataro Kurokawa	Shigemori
Kôtarô Bandô	Rokuroh
Jun Tazaki	Kogenta
Koreya Senda	Gen Kiyomori
Masao Shimizu	Nobuyori
Tatsuya Ishiguro	Yachuta
Kenjiro Uemura	Masanaka
Gen Shimizu	Saburosuke
Michiko Araki	Mano

Writers:

Teinosuke Kinugasa, Masaichi Nagata

Language:

English

Related Programs:

Rashomon

Ugetsu

Kwaidan

Onibaba

In this lauded Japanese drama, the samurai Moritoh Enda performs a heroic act by rescuing the lovely Lady Kesa from a violent uprising. The warrior falls in love with Kesa, but becomes distraught when he finds out that she is already married to a man named Wataru Watanabe . Unable to shake his obsession with Kesa, Moritoh grows increasingly unstable and will not stop in his pursuit of her, no matter what the consequences.

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