Jigoku. by Teruo Ishii. R1 USA DVD. April 12th 2005.

Shuffled over to the Media Blasters site, notoriously difficuly to navigate, and looked through the upcoming releases. It must have been updated recently, as no one yet has obviously picked up on this one. Yes, finally we get the Teruo Ishii masterpiece "Jigoku" released in American under the title "Japanese Hell". Make sure you note that title change when prebooking it online.

It's the later remake that Ishii Directed, as the original seems to have been done by Nobuo Nakagawa. Looking forward to this one either way.

"From The King of the Japanese Cult Movie Teruo Ishii! A controversial film in which actual cases that roiled modern-day Japan, including the sarin gas attack by the Aum Shinrikyo Cult, are dramatized with gruesome detail, as the perpetrators of those crimes are forced to stand trial in Hell. An angst-ridden girl, Rika, is carried off to Hell by an old woman she meets in a neighborhood park. There she gets a first-hand look at the excruciating agony of those found guilty - by Lucifer himself - of committing heinous crimes during their time on earth… "