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Escape from Hell (1963)
Directed by Kazuo Inoue
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.
Length 118 minutes
Actors
Rentarô Mikuni | Mariko Okada | Keiji Sada | Takahiro Tamura | Hiroyuki Nagato | Kiyoshi Atsumi | Kô Nishimura | Junzaburô Ban | Hiroshi Nihon'yanagi | Masahiko Tsugawa | Shinichirô Mikami | Seiji Miyaguchi | Sachiko Hidari | Nakajirô Tomita | Jiro Kawarazaki | Kan'emon Nakamura | Fujio Suga