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Portrait of Hell

Drama

Portrait of Hell

1969 · 91 min · Japan · Japanese

Portrait of Hell (1969) is a solid-tier movie on goodrecmovies, rated 7.2/10 on IMDb from 434 votes. Updated

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★ 7.2IMDb · 434

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.