DramaCrime
Escape from Hell
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.
Directed by Kazuo Inoue
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User score
6 votes
Status
Released
Released
January 27, 1963
Runtime
1h 58m
Language
Japanese
Top cast
Rentaro Mikuni
Shinpei
Mariko Okada
Kumi
Keiji Sada
Yajuro
Takahiro Tamura
Yokouchi
Hiroyuki Nagato
Kojuro
Kiyoshi Atsumi
Ichibei
Kō Nishimura
Heiroku
Junzaburō Ban
Chojiro
Hiroshi Nihon'yanagi
Kisuke
Masahiko Tsugawa
Senta
Shinichirō Mikami
Kichisuke
Seiji Miyaguchi
Usuke
Sachiko Hidari
Orin
Nakajirō Tomita
Sadagoro
Jiro Kawarazaki
Kyuma
Kan'emon Nakamura
Seibei
Fujio Suga
Sobei
