Island of Hell
A scruffy detective investigates the murders of three sisters on a small Japanese island in 1946.
Kon Ichikawa
Casts & Crew
Kôji Ishizaka
Yôko Tsukasa
Reiko Ôhara
Mitsuko Kusabue
Kiwako Taichi
Yuko Asano
Ryôko Sakaguchi
Takeshi Katō
Hideji Ôtaki
Tatsuo Matsumura
Tsunehiko Kamijô
Pîtâ
Taketoshi Naitô
Yoshio Inaba
Noboru Mitani
Kazunaga Tsuji
Shuuichi Ikeda
Akiji Kobayashi
Yasuko Ichinose
Naeko Nakamura
Keiko Oginome
Shizuko Azuma
Hirokazu Takeda
Norihei Miki
Eijirō Tōno
Shin Saburi
Also Directed by Kon Ichikawa
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An early cartoon written by director Kon Ichikawa.
Japanese "kayo" film based on the song "Ieraishan" by Yoshiko Yamaguchi.