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Gate of Hell
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Gate of Hell is a Japanese drama film directed and written by Teinosuke Kinugasa. The cast includes Machiko Kyō, Jun Tazaki, Kazuo Hasegawa, and Isao Yamagata. Produced by Masaichi Nagata with music by Yasushi Akutagawa, the movie was distributed by Daiei Film and Netflix. It was released in 1953 and has a runtime of approximately 88 minutes. The narrative is set in Hiroshima Prefecture.
The film received the Golden Leopard and an Academy Honorary Award. It holds review scores of 8.3/10 and 93%. The production cost was 41,500,000. Keywords associated with the work include samurai, jealousy, husband wife relationship, buddhist, and jidaigeki. It is available in video on demand format with an Academy ratio aspect ratio.
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7.1Japan, 1159. Moritō, a brave samurai, performs a heroic act by rescuing the lovely Kesa during a violent uprising. Moritō falls in love with her, but becomes distraught when he finds out that she is married.
Cast
- Kazuo Hasegawa as Moritō Endō
- Machiko Kyō as Lady Kesa
- Isao Yamagata as Wataru Watanabe
- Yataro Kurokawa as Shigemori
- Kōtarō Bandō as Rokurō
- Jun Tazaki as Kogenta
Themes
- samurai
- jealousy
- husband wife relationship
- buddhist
- jidaigeki
- bushido
- 12th century
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Ratings
IMDb
7.1/10
4,674 votes
Rotten Tomatoes
93%
- Year
- 1953
- Runtime
- 89 min
- Genres
- Drama, History
- Rated
- Not Rated
- Awards
- Won 1 Oscar. 8 wins & 1 nomination total
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- film
- Genre
- drama film
- Country of origin
- Japan
- Original language
- Japanese
- Director
- Teinosuke Kinugasa
- Screenwriter
- Teinosuke Kinugasa
- Cast member
- Kunitarō Sawamura
- Composer
- Yasushi Akutagawa
- Producer
- Masaichi Nagata
- Narrative location
- Hiroshima Prefecture
- Duration
- 88
- FilmAffinity ID
- 446787
- Distribution format
- video on demand
- Official website
- www.films-sans-frontieres.fr/laportedelenfer
- Image
- Jigokumon poster.jpg
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- publication date
- 1954-12-10
- title
- 地獄門
- distributed by
- Netflix
- review score
- 93%
- Commons category
- Gate of Hell
- aspect ratio (W:H)
- Academy ratio
- capital cost
- 41500000
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Gallery (6)
Available in 32 languages
- Español
- Français
- Deutsch
- 中文
- 日本語
- Русский
- Português
- Italiano
- العربية
- azb
- Bahasa Indonesia
- Basque
- Egyptian Arabic
- Galician
- Latvian
- Macedonian
- Nederlands
- Norwegian
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