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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 o…
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Escape from Hell
68%
Movie
1h 58m
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Escape from Hell (1963) — AI movie analysis
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Story & themes: 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. Our models also surface themes such as identity, conflict, and relationships from synopsis and genre signals.
Watch context: Best suited for general audiences. Expect steady storytelling (~118 min).
Community signal: TMDb members rate Escape from Hell 68% (6 votes) — solid community ratings for this movie.
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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.
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- Movie
- Status
- Released
- Release date
- 1963-01-27
- Runtime
- 1h 58m
- TMDB rating
- 6.8
- TMDB ID
- 531993
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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 a... This is the official synopsis available via TMDb community metadata.
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Cast
Rentaro Mikuni
Shinpei
Mariko Okada
Kumi
Keiji Sada
Yajuro
Takahiro Tamura
Yokouchi
Hiroyuki Nagato
Kojuro
Kiyoshi Atsumi
Ichibei
Kō Nishimura
Heiroku
Junzaburō Ban
Chojiro
Hiroshi Nihon'yanagi
Kisuke
Masahiko Tsugawa
Senta
Shinichirō Mikami
Kichisuke
Seiji Miyaguchi
Usuke
Sachiko Hidari
Orin
Nakajirō Tomita
Sadagoro
Jiro Kawarazaki
Kyuma
Kan'emon Nakamura
Seibei
Fujio Suga
Sobei
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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.
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