Gate of Hell (film)

Jigokumon
Theatrical release poster
Directed byTeinosuke Kinugasa
Written byTeinosuke Kinugasa
Produced byMasaichi Nagata
StarringKazuo Hasegawa
Machiko Kyō
CinematographyKōhei Sugiyama
Edited byShigeo Nishida
Music byYasushi Akutagawa
Production
company
Distributed byDaiei Film
Release date
  • October 31, 1953 (1953-10-31)
Running time
86 minutes
CountryJapan
LanguageJapanese
Budget¥41.5 million[a]
Box office¥151.8 million (Japan)[b]
$500,000 (U.S.)[3]

Gate of Hell (地獄門, Jigokumon) is a 1953 Japanese jidaigeki film directed by Teinosuke Kinugasa.[4][5] 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., LTD. in cooperation with NHK.

The film won the Best Costume Design and the Best Foreign Language Film Awards at the 27th Academy Awards[6] and the Grand Prize (the top prize of that year) at the 1954 Cannes Film Festival.

  1. ^ a b 永田雅一 [Masaichi Nagata] (in Japanese). Jiji Press. 1962 – via Google Books.
  2. ^ a b 映画年鑑 [Movie Yearbook] (in Japanese). Vol. 16. 1994. p. 133 – via Google Books.
  3. ^ "Japanese Film Week in New York—Prospects for Boston Screens". The Christian Science Monitor. January 23, 1957. p. 7. Gate of Hell, which grossed about $500,000 in the United States, was shown in approximately 750 theaters.
  4. ^ "Teinosuke Kinugasa". kotobank. Retrieved 10 August 2017.
  5. ^ "地獄門". Kinema Junpo. Retrieved 27 December 2020.
  6. ^ "Academy Awards, USA (1955)". IMDb. Retrieved 2024-03-27.


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