BigList
Login / Sign up
Escape from Hell (1963)

Escape from Hell (1963)

Drama Crime
Release Date: 1963, January 27
Directors: Kazuo Inoue
Countries: Japan
Production: Shochiku
Cast: Seiji Miyaguchi, Rentaro Mikuni, Kō Nishimura, Masahiko Tsugawa, Nakajirō Tomita, Kiyoshi Atsumi, Mariko Okada, Kan'emon Nakamura, Hiroyuki Nagato, Takahiro Tamura, Shinichirō Mikami, Hiroshi Nihon'yanagi

Overview:

This suspense drama set in the mid 1700's depicts the plan of the Tokugawa rulers to send a number of homeless men to a remote island Sado to perform forced labor. Living conditions on the island are terrible and the men soon become rebellious. Based on a short story by Seichō Matsumoto.