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Gate of Hell
地獄門
1953 · Released · 88 min · Japan · Japanese
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.
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Also known as
- Deutsch
- Das Höllentor
- Español
- La puerta del infierno
- Français
- La Porte de l'enfer
- Italiano
- La porta dell'inferno
- 한국어
- 지옥문
- Polski
- Wrota piekieł
- Português
- Jigokumon
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