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Portrait of Hell (1969)

Portrait of Hell (1969)

Portrait of Hell (1969)

Original title: 地獄変

Portrait of Hell is a 1969 Japanese-language drama movie directed by Shirō Toyoda, with a running time of 1h 35m. It stars Tatsuya Nakadai, Kinnosuke Nakamura and Yōko Naitō.

The story, set in the Heian era, depicts the conflict between Korean painter Yoshihide (Nakadai) and his Japanese patron, the cruel and egotistical daimyo Horikawa (Nakamura). It is based on the 1918 short story Hell Screen by Ryūnosuke Akutagawa.

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