Gate of Hell (1953)
地獄門
The most honored screen import in a decade!
Japan, 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.
- Date of release
- 1953-10-30
- TMDB
- 7.1 / 10 (102)
- Runtime
- 1h 26m
- Genres
- Drama, History, Romance
- Director
- Teinosuke Kinugasa
Casting
- Kazuo Hasegawa — Moritō Endō
- Machiko Kyō — Lady Kesa
- Isao Yamagata — Wataru Watanabe
- Yataro Kurokawa — Shigemori
- Kōtarō Bandō — Rokurō
- Jun Tazaki — Kogenta
- Koreya Senda — Gen Kiyomori
- Masao Shimizu — Nobuyori
- Tatsuya Ishiguro — Yachūta
- Kenjiro Uemura — Masanaka
- Gen Shimizu — Saburōsuke
- Michiko Araki — Mano
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