Gate of Hell

Feudal Japanese general Kiyomori (Koreya Senda) is taking in a performance when samurai Moritoh (Kazuo Hasegawa) brings him truthful news of a revolt back in the city, then takes out a spy in the meantime, in Teinosuke Kinugasa's Academy Award-winning Gate Of Hell, 1954.

Director Teinosuke Kinugasa has established 12th century Japan and a frantic battle sequence, in which loyal courtier Lady Kesa (Michiko Kyo) offers to impersonate her endangered empress, and bombastic samurai Morito (Kazuo Hasegawa) volunteers as her escort, opening Gate Of Hell, 1954.

Machiko Kyo is a married Japanese noblewoman, embarrassed, as word has spread of an admiring samurai, who has requested her hand as a reward, dealing first with a local gossip (Michiko Araki), then her own gracious husband (Waturo Watanabe), in Teinosuke Kinugasa's Gate Of Hell, 1953.