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The Inferno

1979 · 131 min

A slow, oppressive plunge into guilt and dread, where grief curdles into visions of hell and the air never clears.

Directed by
Tatsumi Kumashiro
Genres
Horror
Starring
Mieko Harada, Ken Nishida, Kyôko Kishida
Overview
Hell manifests itself through the sins, shame and desires of an upper class rural family and a mother's grief from beyond the grave.

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Directed by
Tatsumi Kumashiro
Genres
Horror
Starring
Mieko Harada, Ken Nishida, Kyôko Kishida
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How it feels

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Tone
    Pacing
    slow-burn, 1 of 4, from slow-burn to relentless
    Attention
    demanding, 4 of 4, from background-friendly to demanding
    Themes
    • grief
    • guilt
    • faith
    • family
    • death
    Places
    • countryside
    • single country house
    Era
    contemporary
    Audience
    adult
    Form
    None
    Content intensity
    • Gore mild
    • Language none
    • Violence mild
    • Sex mild
    All scales, 0 to 10
    Scales, 0 to 10
    ScaleValue0 to 10
    Action1
    Horror7
    Humour1
    Realism5
    Romance1
    Tension6
    Darkness8
    Complexity7
    Emotional weight8

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    Details

    Genres
    horror
    Directed by
    Tatsumi Kumashiro
    Written by
    Yōzō Tanaka
    Starring
    Mieko Harada, Ken Nishida, Kyôko Kishida, Kunie Tanaka, Jun Hamamura, Kazuko Inano, Renji Ishibashi, Yoshi Katō
    Music
    Riichirō Manabe, Hako Yamasaki
    Cinematography
    Shigeru Akatsuka
    Runtime
    131 min
    Country
    Japan
    Languages
    Japanese

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