Gate of Hell (film)
Gate of Hell (地獄門, Jigokumon) is a 1953 Japanese jidaigeki film directed by Teinosuke Kinugasa. It tells the story of a samurai (Kazuo Hasegawa) who tries to marry a woman (Machiko Kyō) he rescues, only to discover that she is already married. Filmed using Eastmancolor, Gate of Hell was Daiei Film's first color film and the first Japanese color film to be released outside Japan. It was digitally restored in 2011 by the National Film Center of the National Museum of Modern Art, Tokyo and Kadokawa Shoten Co., LTD. in cooperation with NHK.
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| Directed by | Teinosuke Kinugasa |
| Written by | Teinosuke Kinugasa |
| Produced by | Masaichi Nagata |
| Starring | Kazuo Hasegawa Machiko Kyō |
| Cinematography | Kōhei Sugiyama |
| Edited by | Shigeo Nishida |
| Music by | Yasushi Akutagawa |
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| Distributed by | Daiei Film |
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Running time | 86 minutes |
| Country | Japan |
| Language | Japanese |
The film won the Best Costume Design and the Best Foreign Language Film Awards at the 27th Academy Awards and the Grand Prize (the top prize of that year) at the 1954 Cannes Film Festival.
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