# Jigoku (1960)

> A graduate student’s complicity in a fatal hit-and-run opens a nightmarish descent into Buddhist visions of guilt, punishment, and hell.

Canonical page: https://ember.film/movie/33856

## Facts

- Runtime: 99 min
- Genres: Horror, Drama
- Director: Nobuo Nakagawa
- Cast: Shigeru Amachi, Utako Mitsuya, Yōichi Numata, Hiroshi Hayashi, Kanjūrō Arashi, Jun Ōtomo, Akiko Yamashita, Kiyoko Tsuji
- TMDB rating: 6.3/10
- IMDb: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0154683/

## Ember's analysis

- Pacing: brisk
- Intensity: extreme
- Complexity: layered
- Violence: graphic
- Mood: eerie, foreboding, harrowing, late night horror viewing, cult film marathon

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