GATE OF HELL (THE CRITERION COLLECTION) [BLU-RAY]

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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, Kunitaro Sawamura, Kanji Koshiba, Fujio Harumoto, Taiji Tonoyama, Hiroshi Mizuno, Shozo Nanbu, Shintarô Nanjô, Toshiaki Konoe, Eigoro Onoe, Kan Ueda, Seishirô Hara, Sumao Ishihara, Saburô Date, Yukio Horikita, Ryuuji Fukui, Fumihiko Yokoyama, Akira Shimizu, Kazue Tamaoki, Jun Fujikawa, Tadashi Iwata, Tokio Oki, Hajime Koshikawa, Ryuzaburo Mitsuoka, Togo Onami, Kiyoshi Takikawa, Teinosuke Kinugasa, Kan Kikuchi, Masaichi Nagata, Kôhei Sugiyama, Shigeo Nishida, Yasushi Akutagawa, Kisaku Ito
• Director: Teinosuke Kinugasa
• Runtime: 1:29
• Company: Daiei Studios (Daiei Film Co., Ltd.; Daiei Eiga), Kadokawa Corporation (Kadokawa Pictures Inc.), Janus Films, The Criterion Collection
• Media Format: Movie