地狱变
/
地獄変
/
지옥변
/
地獄變
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Portrait of Hell
/
Portrait de l'enfer
director:
Shirō Toyoda
playwright:
芥川龙之介
/
Toshio Yasumi
actor:
The Snake
/
中村锦之助
/
Yōko Naitō
genre:
Drama
region:
Japan
language:
Japanese
length: 1h 35m
release date: 1969-11-18
IMDb: tt0064512
地獄変
Overview
The story, set in the Heian era, depicts the conflict between Korean painter Yoshihide (Nakadai) and his Japanese patron, the cruel and egotistical daimyo Horikawa (Nakamura). It is based on the 1918 short story Hell Screen by Ryūnosuke Akutagawa.