Hell Screen - Adaptations

Adaptations

Multiple film productions and Kabuki based on Hell Screen have been produced, including:

  • Jigoku-hen, a 1953 Kabuki dramatized by Yukio Mishima.
  • Portrait of Hell, a 1969 movie produced by Toho
  • A 1962 NHK broadcast television adaptation
  • 2009 Episode 12 of the Aoi Bungaku animated series directed by Atsuko Ishizuka
  • 1994 Ukrainian composer Victoria Poleva has written the ballet Gagaku, based on Akutagawa's Hell Screen

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