Escape from Hell

6.819631h 58mReleased

Drama

Crime

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.

StatusReleased

Release Date1963-01-27

Runtime1h 58m

Languages日本語

CountriesJapan

Videos

1 total

Trailer

無宿人別帳（予告）

Cast & Crew

Rentaro Mikuni

as Shinpei

Mariko Okada

as Kumi

Keiji Sada

as Yajuro

Takahiro Tamura

as Yokouchi

Hiroyuki Nagato

as Kojuro

Kiyoshi Atsumi

as Ichibei

Kō Nishimura

as Heiroku

Junzaburō Ban

as Chojiro

Hiroshi Nihon'yanagi

as Kisuke

Masahiko Tsugawa

as Senta

Reviews

DenPryan

Sep 19, 2020

9/10

In 1802, vagrants are rounded up in Edo and sent to Sado Island for forced labor in a mine. Among them is handsome Yaju who was falsely charged with a crime by Kurozuka. Kurozuka arrives on Sado Island as an official under the new magistrate Shuzen, and makes repeated attempts on Yaju's life. In this he is helped by Kojuro, an ambitious constable …

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