Japanese Hell

Japanese Hell is probably the best-worst movie I've ever bought. It is very cheesy but, holds great moral advice such as sinners will always pay. Watching this film isn't someone's desperate escape in finding a good horror movie because there is no such thing as a "good horror movie". Trust me I've seen alot more worser or typical horror films and this one doesn't even get close to them. The main plotline is basically the goddess of hell see's greatness in a young woman whom recently got out of a seriously horrible cult and wants her not to suffer by giving her the chance to get a glimpse of her afterlife (Dante's Inferno?). Upon her visit, she meets a child molestor whom gets repeatly chopped up in pieces enternally, the lawyers whom lied during the cult's trial then gets their tongues pulled out, the cult memebers whom are burnt alive, and the Great Leader whose skin is ripped off forever. Though it may sound gruesome and not the best for the weak hearted but, just remember; cheap 'n cheesy effects. The film also has a mythological standpoint because it basically represents the Japanese belief system of what hell is like for them. For example, there are oni (demonic ogres), withces/hags/goddess, and dragons (which is a handpuppet, yay!). The only problem with this film is that, to me; its degrading to women because there is a lot of brief (brief is an understandment) nudity and sexuality so, be warned. This film is also a remake of an original film, and holds some Japanese history (see comment from other review by "hollywoodpsychic" for more info). This film is a great addition to anybody's collection and I recommend it greatly to anyone who likes J-Horror.

A bizarre, mildly erotic, occasionally grotesque B-movie remake of such slow pacing it’s not worthy of the Tokyo Shock subgenre. Sorry. But there’s not enough gore, bad movie antics or weirdness to make this worth your time for all its long boring sections. Not when there are so many other great, weird, shocking, provocative Asian horror films out there. Still, it wasn’t regrettably bad, and might make for a solid Bad Movie Tuesday.To save her soul, the mysterious Miss Enma (Michiko Maeda) offers Rika (Kinako Satô; Exte: Hair Extensions, Strange Circus) the opportunity to see Hell so she may avoid the sins that may lead her to such a fate. Guided by Enma’s young ‘non-human’ associate Mako (Yôko Satomi; Maid-Droid), Rika is forcibly disrobed, guided on a walking tour of Hell, and shown Hellbound sinners along with their sins and punishment. The visions of Hell largely amount to a fever dream of scantily clad denizens with disfigured faces twitching among grub-infested corpses.Almost like an anthology movie, we see sinners’ sins as standalone vignette short films. Afterwards, we witness the infernal sentencing, which (in the case of the first sinner) included having his arm, then his feet, legs and head sawed off by some Yokai Monsters in rubber suits. The budget is humble. But at least everything boldly happens on-screen. This movie is doing its darnedest with the few dollars they scraped together to produce it.At times, this is deliciously bad. Another sinner’s vignette shows assailants abducting a man and his wife “in slow motion.” But the actors are literally trying to move and even speak “slowly” in real time and are doing so inconsistently and out of sync with each other. Keeping in line with the “slo-mo” acting are the stop motion plastic roaches. We grin at the bad movie antics. But it’s just not doing it for me.Fair warning, one vignetter features a cult leader who takes advantage of his young female followers—so there’s that. The cult leader’s sinful story leads into Rika’s sinful inclusion in the cult. It’s a long stretch of very boring scenes that felt like a cult drama with several racy assault scenes. This was a rough chunk of the film. The vignettes are generally long and soporific. Still, it’s not without its occasional merits. A truly cartoonishly stretchy tongue-removal was the absolute highlight of this movie.In this remake of the 1960 film Jigoku (aka, Hell), writer and director Teruo Ishii (Evil Brain from Outer Space, Female Yakuza Tale) has cobbled together something which seems to mix very low budget theatrical over-the-top Hell scenes with grounded, normal, boring scenes in reality. The inconsistent result is like the proverbial worst meatloaf ever whose outside is burned while the inside is somehow undercooked—yet we still get to laugh at the mere fact it was served in the first place. Overall, this film featured not nearly as much gore, bad movie antics or weirdness as I had hoped. So it’s probably not worth your time when there are so many other great, weird, shocking, provocative Asian horror films out there. Still, it wasn’t regrettably bad.

I ignored other reviews and I was wrong to.The movie depicts Japanese hell.I've seen a lot of movies from Asia depicting hell and I would go to say such movies were trying to persuade viewers to not go to hell and to live moral lives.But this movie comes off as if the depicting of hell is depicted as if it wants to drag the viewers to hell, which isn't what I beleive is mortally right.I've seen/watched quite a lot of the director's movies and avoided others. I have to say if you're looking for a movie that is reminiscent of the directors past work that has a clean catharsis than I dont think you're going to enjoy the movie.The movie has a few special effects like creatures and sets built.I skipped the scenes that were seriously immodest. The director made many other works in the 70s that didnt have explicit materials so vivid. The traditional special effects so rarely seen in the late 90s and modern day do not make up for the unneeded depictionsof the cult terrorist group this movie it surrounds.I do not reccomend this movie according to Quanta Cura & The Syllabus of Errors.

This movie is a very interesting comment on a part of somewhat well known tragic history in Japan. similar to an American recount of Waco/heavens gate tragedy . I think the reall start of this film is Enma,and the emotion the actor conveyed in this role.

The late Japanese cult legend Teruo Ishii's traditional vision of hell is a highly entertaining movie with a profoundly moral message at its core. Rika, a young naive women dabbling with the belief's of a religious cult society, is given a tour of the underworld by Madam Emna, the ruler of all eight hells, in a bid to change her misguided ways and convert her into a messenger designed in persuading others to transform their misguided lives. A man guilty of child molestation escapes punishment for his crimes on earth by faking mental illness but the gods of hell fire are waiting to exact retribution on his soul for all eternity by slowly sawing off his limbs, decapitating his head and finally resurrecting him so the torture proceedings can be repeated again. It's a bloody affair with old school special effects being expertly used - it's a hard life being a mannequin. Rika is then shown her own fate if she decides to continue supporting the dubious cult by gathering new members for the fake prophet known as divine leader. This gives Rika, and the viewer, an accurate portrayal of the dispicable nature of faux religious sects by exposing their true goals for exploiting the vulnerable. The demons from the bowels of hell await, not only the arrival of all the cult members but also the lawyers who defended them, so that the laws of karma can be applied for their heinous crimes against the innocent; watching the pettifoggers get their comeuppance is just one image on offer worth savouring. This is a wonderfully deranged movie concluded with an excellent message for all who take the time to sit through the experience, it left me with a wry smile on my face thinking... if only it were true?