GATE OF HELL (THE CRITERION COLLECTION)

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• Release Year: 1953
• Genre: Drama, Romance
• Plot: A winner of Academy Awards for best foreign-language film and best costume design, Gate of Hell is a visually sumptuous, psychologically penetrating work from Teinosuke Kinugasa. In the midst of epic, violent intrigue in twelfth-century Japan, an imperial warrior falls for a lady-in-waiting; after he discovers she is married, he becomes frenzied in his attempts to win her love. Kinugasa’s film, an early triumph of color cinematography in Japan, is an unforgettable, tragic story of obsession and unrequited passion.
• Cast: Kazuo Hasegawa, Machiko Kyô, Isao Yamagata, Yataro Kurokawa, Kôtarô Bandô, Jun Tazaki, Koreya Senda, Masao Shimizu, Tatsuya Ishiguro, Kenjiro Uemura, Gen Shimizu, Michiko Araki, Yoshie Minami, Kikue Môri, Ryôsuke Kagawa, Shinobu Araki, Kunitarô Sawamura, Kanji Koshiba, Fujio Harumoto, Taiji Tonoyama, Hiroshi Mizuno, Shôzô Nanbu, Shintarô Nanjô, Toshiaki Konoe, Eigorô Onoe, Kan Ueda, Seishirô Hara, Sumao Ishihara, Saburô Date, Yukio Horikita, Takaji Fukui, Fumihiko Yokoyama, Akira Shimizu, Kazue Tamaki, Jun Fujikawa, Tadashi Iwata, Tokio Oki, Hajime Koshikawa, Ryûzaburô Mitsuoka, Togo Onami, Kiyoshi Takikawa, Teinosuke Kinugasa, Kan Kikuchi, Masaichi Nagata
• Director: Teinosuke Kinugasa
• Runtime: 1:29
• Company: Daiei Motion Picture Company
• Media Format: Movie