Portrait of Hell (1969)
- Original title
- 地獄変
- Directed by
- Shirō Toyoda
- Genre
- drama, horror
- Country
- Japan
- Runtime
- 1h 35m
- Rating
- 7.9 of 10 from 12 voters
- Elsewhere
- IMDb
How it feels
A celebrated painter in feudal Japan is commissioned to create a screen depicting hell. He becomes obsessed with capturing true suffering on his canvas.
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What happens
Portrait of Hell (地獄変, Jigokuhen), also titled A Story of Hell and The Hell Screen, is a 1969 Japanese jidaigeki film directed by Shirō Toyoda starring Tatsuya Nakadai and Kinnosuke Nakamura. The film is based on the short story Hell Screen by Ryūnosuke Akutagawa. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)
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