Escape from Hell

Name: Escape from Hell
Director: Kazuo Inoue
Genre: Drama, Crime
Released: 1963-01-27
Duration: 1 h 58 min
Rating: 6.8
Cast: Rentaro Mikuni, Mariko Okada, Keiji Sada, Takahiro Tamura, Hiroyuki Nagato

1963

1h 58m

Drama Crime

Director: Kazuo Inoue

Writer: Hideo Oguni

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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.