From the Image (Criterion's distributor) website:
Shocking, outrageous, and poetic, Jigoku (Hell) is the most innovative creation from Nobuo Nakagawa, the father of the Japanese horror film. After a young theology student flees a hit-and-run accident, he is plagued by both his own guilt-ridden conscience and a mysterious, diabolical doppelganger. But all possible escape routes lead to Hell - literally. In the gloriously gory final third of the film, Nakagawa offers up his vision of the underworld in a tour-de-force of torture and degradation. A striking departure from traditional Japanese ghost stories thanks to its truly eye-popping (and gouging) imagery, Jigoku created aftershocks that are still reverberating in cinema around the world today.
Extras include:
- Galleries of posters from selected Nakagawa and Shintoho Studio films
- Theatrical trailer
- New, restored high-definition digital transfer
- "Building the Inferno," a new documentary on Nakagawa and the making of the film
- New and improved English subtitle translation
- New essay by noted Asian cinema critic Chuck Stephens
Out on September 12!
Thanks to the tireless eyes at Twitch for the info.
3 comments:
Wow, that cover looks awesome.
To my mind one and all ought to look at this.
I suppose one and all should browse on it.
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