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
The catalogue in 3D
The film shelves have a room of their own that you can walk around in. The cat behind the counter is the AI Catbot, and they pick real films from the same catalogue when you tell them what you feel like watching. Nothing is for sale, here or in there. Go in from here and this film is already out on the counter, with more like it waiting on the shelf next to it.
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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Horrors of Malformed Men (1969)- More like this film, on a shelf you can walk up to.It's the lit case on the top shelf.