Escape from Hell

Original title: 無宿人別帳

118 minutes • 1963 • 6.2 Score

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.

Kazuo Inoue

Director