History Film / TheSinnersOfHell

* TheGrimReaper: Or the Japanese equivalent thereof. Tamura, who throughout the movie has been implied to possibly be supernatural, is revealed near the end to be "a demon, the accursed god of Hell."

* MaybeMagicMaybeMundane: It's not entirely clear just who, or what, Tamura is. He has an inexplicable knowledge of all the evil deeds committed by everyone else in the movie. (He even manages to produce a photograph of Prof. Yajima stealing his comrade's water canteen some 15 years earlier during the war.) Shirō sees the taxi driver change into Tamura just for a moment, right before the taxi driver crashes the car. In one scene where Shirō and Sachiko are chatting by the railroad tracks, Tamura suddenly appears out of nowhere. Later he appears at the rope bridge, again out of nowhere. Then Tamura somehow manages to survive getting shot and falling a very long way off that rope bridge, showing back up at the retirement home with the gun.
--> '''Tamura''': I knew this would happen. I know everything, you know.

* IronicHell: A man who took water from a dying fellow soldier during UsefulNotes/WorldWarII gets a torment similar to that of [[Myth/ClassicalMythology Tantalus]].
* IronicName: The sad, dumpy BleakAbyssRetirementHome is called "Tenjoen"--"Heavenly Garden".

* ReligiousHorror: Welcome to Buddhist hell!

* MaybeMagicMaybeMundane: It's not entirely clear just who, or what, Tamura is. He has an inexplicable knowledge of all the evil deeds committed by everyone else in the movie. Shirō sees the taxi driver change into Tamura just for a moment, right before the taxi driver crashes the car. In one scene where Shirō and Sachiko are chatting by the railroad tracks, Tamura suddenly appears out of nowhere. Later he appears at the rope bridge, again out of nowhere. Then Tamura somehow manages to survive getting shot and falling a very long way off that rope bridge, showing back up at the retirement home with the gun.

* MaybeMagicMaybeMundane: It's not entirely clear just who, or what, Tamura is. He has an inexplicable knowledge of all the evil deeds committed by everyone else in the movie. Shirō sees the taxi driver change into Tamura just for a moment, right before the taxi driver crashes the car. In one scene where Shirō and Sachiko are chatting by the railroad tracks, Tamura suddenly appears out of nowhere. Later he appears at the rope bridge, again out of nowhere.

** The residents in the shabby common room complain about the food and accuse the doctor of skimming off of their welfare payments; he angrily denies it.

* CorruptCop: Hariya, who wants to marry Sachiko, and threatens Ensai with an arrest for forgery if he doesn't give his daughter over. Tamura reveals that Hariya was bribed to perpetrate a FrameJob on a man who wound up killing himself.

* MaybeMagicMaybeMundane: It's not entirely clear just who, or what, Tamura is. He has an inexplicable knowledge of all the evil deeds committed by everyone else in the movie. Shirō sees the taxi driver change into Tamura just for a moment, right before the taxi driver crashes the car. In one scene where Shirō and Sachiko are chatting by the railroad tracks, Tamura suddenly appears out of nowhere.

* TheSociopath: Tamura. He runs over and kills Kyōichi without even blinking over it, and blames Shirō for wanting to drive down the alley in the first place.

* CorruptCop: Hariya, who wants to marry Sachiko, and threatens Ensai with an arrest for forgery if he doesn't give his daughter over.

* IdenticalStranger: Yukiko, Shirō's fiancée, and Sachiko the pretty girl from the old folks' home are played by the same actress.

* BleakAbyssRetirementHome: It's bad when you're an old person basically left on a mat on the floor to die; it's even worse when your husband is cheating on you with some young tart in the very next room, within earshot.

NeedsWikiMagicLove.

* YourCheatingHeart: Gōzō cheats on his wife Ito with his mistress Kinuko without even trying to be discreet!

* DrivenToSuicide: [[spoiler: Mr. and Mrs. Yajima, Kyōichi's mother, and Ensai]].

* LukeIAmYourFather: [[spoiler: Ensai is Shirō's actual father, Sachiko is is Shirō's sister, and Ito is Shirō and Sachiko's mother]].

* TheSociopath: Tamura. He runs over and kills Kyōichi without even blinking over it, and blames Shirō for wanting to drive down the alley in the first place.
* TooGoodForThisSinfulEarth: [[spoiler: Yukiko and Sachiko]].

* ReligiousHorror

* IronicHell: A man who took water from a dying fellow soldier during WorldWarII gets a torment similar to that of [[Myth/ClassicalMythology Tantalus]].

* {{Gorn}}: It's often considered the [[UrExample first ever]] splatter flick, even predating the 1963 ''BloodFeast'', and for good reason.

* IronicHell: A man who took water from a dying fellow soldier during WorldWarII gets a torment similar to that of [[ClassicalMythology Tantalus]].

* IronicHell

* SplitPersonality: It is very possible that Shirō has this, with Tamura as his dark side, like with ''FightClub''.

* {{Satan}}: Well, you have Lord Enma, the King of Hell, who could be considered the Japanese equivalent.
** It's more of a case of EverybodyHatesHades, since Enma oversees hell/the underworld and acts as a judge for the damned rather than a devil figure.

* {{Hell}}: Following everybody's deaths at the party, everyone winds up in Hell. The film is notable for graphically showing the torments of Hell.

* RoaringRampageOfRevenge: This is what Yoko and Kyōichi's mother have in mind when it comes to Shirō.

''Jigoku'' (地獄) is a 1960 Japanese horror film directed by Nobuo Nakagawa and starring Utako Mitsuya and Shigeru Amachi. The film's title translates to "Hell," and its alternate title is ''The Sinners of Hell''.