Gate of Hell Comments

  • Garry 2022-04-22 07:01:53

    The most watery Palme d’Or and Aowai in history, the Japanese are also inexplicable that this film won the award. It’s really not worth it for the Seven Samurai and Uzumaki Monogatari. The magical film can’t win the award, but the mediocre film won the award. No matter whether Jing Dingzi plays a graceful and luxurious woman, a dusty woman or a female ghost, she is very good. Japanese actresses are so much better than male...

  • Erika 2022-04-22 07:01:53

    The film itself is very mediocre, but the colors, costumes and pictures are full of a strong classical beauty. Japanese movies like to condense large scenes into the confines of one shot. Jing Machiko is not beautiful, but her demeanor is very noble. I never expected such an ending. Unexpectedly, it makes sense that Japanese women have always sacrificed themselves to achieve both, which is very suitable for Mizoguchi Kenji's theme. Sun Shadow, as always, has a super slow rhythm, and it is more...

  • Green 2022-04-22 07:01:53

    The film won Japan's first Palme d'Or at the Cannes Film Festival in 1954, and seems to have won an Oscar for costume design. Since it is the first Eastman color film in Japan, I want to talk about the color. It has the gorgeousness of Japanese kimono fabrics. In contrast, in the late 1950s in Hong Kong, Eastman color films began to be made. As a Chinese, I think our color is selfish. Handling is more mature. The drumming is so majestic, it's hard to imagine that the director used to be a man...

  • Dandre 2022-04-21 09:03:29

    7.2 started off with such a big background, and the result turned out to be a story of love with a horizontal knife. Wouldn't it be a bit exaggerated? And this movie is still in the style of Japanese movies, with ugly people and ugly makeup, ugly performances, and disgusting...

  • Fabiola 2022-04-21 09:03:29

    Gorgeous colors, the hardest is...

  • Napoleon 2022-04-21 09:03:29

    The story and layout are a bit shallow. Didn't other countries have strong films back then, and won so many international...

  • Amiya 2022-04-21 09:03:29

    That gorgeous Eastman...

  • Donnell 2022-04-21 09:03:29

    Kyomachiko is really beautiful, as fragile as the powder on the wings of a butterfly. The handling of colors and lines is too much like a classical drama. The strong color blocks are distributed on the dark curtain. The story is too much to look at from the current perspective. This film is too Japanese. At first glance and a sense of Zen - human desires can only be resolved by...

  • Curtis 2022-04-21 09:03:29

    1. Too many colors, not the simplified beauty of today's Japan. 2. The material of the clothing is rough. 800 years ago, there was no text in Japan, but a bulletin board appeared in the film, which was a flaw. 3. The local warriors were so bold? The guards of the shogunate are so slaughtered? Or is it that a scholar meets a soldier, and it makes no sense? 4. Why don't you discuss it with your...

  • Ludie 2022-04-21 09:03:29

    Kinikasa Zhenosuke is one of the most important directors in the early history of Japanese film. He was born in Kabuki in his early years, and this film can be called the representative work of Kinkasa costume drama. This masterpiece absorbs the shape of traditional Japanese drama, especially Vibrant color combination. Although the story of this film is old-fashioned and traditional, it does not lose the interest of fables. It can be regarded as a classic in Japanese film...

Extended Reading

Gate of Hell quotes

  • Kesa: [after Moritoo grabs her in a strong embrace] What are you doing?

    Moritoo Endô: You refuse no matter what?

    Kesa: Yes.

    Moritoo Endô: Then I'm ready. You're mine now!

    Kesa: No matter what you say, female virtue won't allow it.

    Moritoo Endô: Drop your husband. Leave Wataru.

    Kesa: I can't do that.

    Moritoo Endô: Why can't you? I, Moritoo, will slay Wataru. I won't stop with Wataru. If needed, your aunt too. I might have to kill you too!

    Kesa: [the camera moves in for an intense close-up of Kesa] Are you ready to do all that? Do you want me that much?

    Moritoo Endô: I want you. I can't live without you. What do you say? Can't you grant my wish? Eh? Why don't you answer? Do you want Wataru, yourself, and your aunt all dead? Kesa! It all depends on your answer now.

  • Moritoo Endô: [to Kesa's aunt] If you take a step outside tonight, I'll lop off your head!