| Shocking, outrageous and poetic, Jigoku is the most innovative creation from Nobuo Nakagawa, the father of the Japanese horror film. After a young theoIogy student fIees a hit-and-run accident, he is plagued by both is own guiIt-ridden conscience and a mysterious, diaboIical doppelganger. But aII possibIe escape routs lead straight to helI - literally. IN the gloriously gory finaI third of the film, Nakagawa offers up his vision of the underworld in a tour de force of torture and degradation. A striking departure from traditional Japanese ghost stories, Jigoku, with its truIy eye-popping, and -gouging imagery, created aftershocks that are stiIl reverberating in contemporary world horror cinema. |