History Film / TheSinnersOfHell

* DownerEnding: Everyone goes to hell after eating poisoned fish, and Shirō ultimately fails to save his daughter.
** Or does he? The movie's final shot, showing the standard interpretation of Japanese Heaven, seems to imply that Shiro does succeed at the last possible moment.

* PlotHole: Kyōichi's mom appears in Hell with the rest of the cast even though we never see her die; the movie leaves the real world behind once she strangles Shiro to death but not even a hint of how she died is given for the rest of the film. Website/TheOtherWiki at one point said she committed suicide but again, not one hint as to her cause of death.
** She is seen taking a drink from the poisoned sake after everyone had their drink, however. So it's safe to assume she had enough strength to strangle Shiro at that point before succumbing herself.

* KillEmAll: The movie doesn't stop there, however!

* PlotHole: Kyōichi's mom appears in Hell with the rest of the cast even though we never see her die; the movie leaves the real world behind once she strangles Shiro to death but not even a hint of how she died is given for the rest of the film. TheOtherWiki at one point said she committed suicide but again, not one hint as to her cause of death.

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* FlayingAlive: Not so much "alive" as "in Hell as a spirit/soul" but regardless, the punishment laid onto Shiro's father, easily the most evil person in the film as he causes the deaths of almost everyone in his retirement home, is to be skinned alive. The result of this punishment is shown twice on-screen, with exposed organs and bones and even his heart beating in his chest.

* HonorBeforeReason: Kiyochi's mom and girlfriend wanting to kill Shiro as well as Tamura. Tamura makes sense as he was the one driving and chose to flee the scene instead of stopping to help (though since Kiyochi expired not even a minute later, it wouldn't have done much good anyways) but Shiro was just the passenger in his car. Then again, grief can make people do strange things.

* OffWithHisHead: One of the punishments laid onto Kiyochi's mother for assisting in poisoning the nursing home residents and killing Shiro is for her head to be cut off. Down swings the blade and her body is dragged away while her head remains in place, contorted and twitching in agony and trauma.
* PlotHole: Kiyochi's mom appears in Hell with the rest of the cast even though we never see her die; the movie leaves the real world behind once she strangles Shiro to death but not even a hint of how she died is given for the rest of the film. TheOtherWiki at one point said she committed suicide but again, not one hint as to her cause of death.

* RedHerring: Possibly an unintentional one; While Tamura is fleeing the scene of the accident, a couple shots have his car's license plate in the center of the frame with one of those shots following one of Kiyochi's mom watching him and Shiro driving off which one would think means she'll find them by tracing the plate number to Tamura's car. This information never comes into play.

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

* HalfTheManHeUsedToBe: Dr. Kusuma's punishment, for caressly making multiple misdiagnoseses and caring far more about sex and money then the well-being of his patients a d causing several to die slowly and painfully, is to be sawed at half at the waist, back to front.

* HalfTheManHeOnceWas: Dr. Kusuma's punishment, for caressly making multiple misdiagnoseses and caring far more about sex and money then the well-being of his patients a d causing several to die slowly and painfully, is to be sawed at half at the waist, back to front.

* HalfTheManHeWas: Dr. Kusuma's punishment, for caressly making multiple misdiagnoseses and caring far more about sex and money then the well-being of his patients a d causing several to die slowly and painfully, is to be sawed at half at the waist, back to front.

* DownerEnding: Everyone goes to hell after eating poisoned fish.

Shirō (Shigeru Amachi) is a mild-mannered divinity student. He is engaged to be married to Yukiko (Utako Mitsuya), the daughter of one of his teachers, Prof. Yajima. Shirō has poor taste in friends, unfortunately, hanging out with a creepy and rather unsettling fellow student named Tamura. One night when they've been out drinking, and with Tamura behind the wheel of the car, they strike and kill a gang leader named Kyōichi.

The film's second half takes place in the Buddhist Hell, where Shirō learns horrifying truths about the people in his life while witnessing the myriad horrors that his acquaintances have earned for their sins, all while trying to save the daughter that he learns that he had with Yukiko shortly before her death.

''Jigoku'' (地獄), also known as ''The Sinners of Hell'', is a 1960 Japanese horror film directed by Nobuo Nakagawa and starring Utako Mitsuya and Shigeru Amachi.

The film's second half takes place in the Buddhist Hell, and manages to be one of the most graphic and horrifying visions of Hell ever put to film, such that the movie itself is often called the very first splatter movie, even predating 1963's ''Film/BloodFeast''.

Kyōichi's mother and his girlfriend track Shirō down to the retirement home and attempt to avenge themselves. Tamura shows up at the home uninvited. Soon, everything goes pear-shaped as Shirō, Sachiko, Tamura, Kyōichi's mother, Kyōichi's girlfriend, and everyone at a party all wind up dead. And then, everything goes straight to Hell.

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

Shirō did not want to get anyone killed, but a gang leader named Kyōichi is killed thanks to the driving of his acquaintance Tamura. Kyoichi's mother, who witnesses the whole thing, plots revenge upon both of them. Shirō tries to report the incident to the police, but an accident occurs on the way there, and gets his fiancee Yukiko killed. Then he gets sidetracked with visiting his mother Ito, who is sick and dying, as well as meeting Sachiko, the daughter of a disgraced painter who is painting a portrait of Hell. Kyōichi's mother and his girlfriend attempt to avenge themselves, but everything goes pear-shaped as Shirō, Sachiko, Tamura, Kyōichi's mother, Kyōichi's girlfriend, and everyone at a party all wind up dead. And then, everything goes straight to Hell. Literally.

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