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.

Release Date : 1963-01-27

Language :Japanese

Adult : false

Status : Released

Production Company : Shochiku

Production Country : Japan

Alternative Titles : Escape from Hell

Cast

Character Name : Shinpei

Original Name : 三国連太郎

Gender : Male

Character Name : Kumi

Original Name : 岡田茉莉子

Gender : Female

Character Name : Yajuro

Original Name : 佐田啓二

Gender : Male

Character Name : Yokouchi

Original Name : 田村高廣

Gender : Male

Character Name : Kojuro

Original Name : 長門裕之

Gender : Male

Character Name : Ichibei

Original Name : 渥美清

Gender : Male

Character Name : Heiroku

Original Name : 西村晃

Gender : Male

Character Name : Chojiro

Original Name : 伴淳三郎

Gender : Male

Character Name : Kisuke

Original Name : 二本柳寛

Gender : Male

Character Name : Senta

Original Name : 津川雅彦

Gender : Male

Character Name : Kichisuke

Original Name : 三上真一郎

Gender : Male

Character Name : Usuke

Original Name : 宮口精二

Gender : Male

Character Name : Orin

Original Name : 左幸子

Gender : Female

Character Name : Sadagoro

Original Name : 富田仲次郎

Gender : Male

Character Name : Kyuma

Original Name : 河原崎次郎

Gender : Male

Character Name : Seibei

Original Name : 三代目中村翫右衛門

Gender : Male

Character Name : Sobei

Original Name : 須賀不二男

Gender : Male

Reviews

DenPryan

@DenPryan

2021-06-23

In 1802, vagrants are rounded up in Edo and sent to Sado Island for forced labor in a mine. Among them is handsome Yaju who was falsely charged with a crime by Kurozuka. Kurozuka arrives on Sado Island as an official under the new magistrate Shuzen, and makes repeated attempts on Yaju's life. In this he is helped by Kojuro, an ambitious constable who is willing to do anything for promotion. Kojuro finds out that Shuzen is suspicious of the prosperity of Kagaya, a mine owner and informs against him. Kojuro places his mistress Rin in the service of bachelor Shuzen pretending that she is his sister, in order to further his personal aims. Kagaya bribes the vagrants' foreman to incite the men to escape, planning to have troops shoot them down when they arrive at the beach. The plot fails and the desperate vagrants attack the guards. Kuruzuka crosses swords with Yaju and both die. The magistrate's office goes up in flames. All vagrants are killed in the fighting except Senta who with Miyo, a young woman of the island, rows away in a small boat to a new life.