Jigoku (film) - Cast

Cast

  • Shigeru Amachi as Shirō Shimizu, a young theology student who is guilted by his involvement in a hit-and-run on the night of his engagement to his girlfriend.
  • Yōichi Numata as Tamura, Shirō's dark and sociopathic classmate, who inexplicably knows everyone's sinful past, and who drove car during the hit and run.
  • Utako Mitsuya as Yukiko Yajima, Shirō's loving girlfriend.
    • and Sachiko Taniguchi, a young nurse who looks uncannily like Yukiko, and the daughter of a disgraced painter at a retirement community.
  • Hiroshi Izumida as Kyōichi 'Tiger' Shiga, a gangster hit and left for dead by Tamura and Shirō.
  • Kiyoko Tsuji as Kyōichi's Mother, who witnesses the accident and vows revenge.
  • Akiko Ono as Yoko, Kyōichi's girlfriend who swears revenge on Shirō.
  • Hiroshi Hayashi as Gōzō Shimizu, Shirō's lecherous and greedy father who runs a dilapidated retirement center.
  • Kimie Tokudaij as Ito Shimizu, Shirō's sickly mother
  • Jun Ōtomo as Ensai Taniguchi, father to Sachiko, and an alcoholic painter, commissioned to paint a depiction of Hell
  • Akiko Yamashita as Kinuko, Gōzō's shameless mistress
  • Torahiko Nakamura as Professor Yajima, Shirō's teacher and father to Yukiko.
  • Fumiko Miyata as Mrs. Yajima, Yukiko's fragile mother
  • Tomohiko Ōtani as Dr. Kusama, a negligent doctor of the retirement community
  • Kôichi Miya as Journalist Akagawa, a resident of the community with a soiled past
  • Hiroshi Shinguji (as Hiroshi Shingûji) as Detective Hariya, a corrupt detective who threatens to turn Ensai in unless he gives Sachiko to him for marriage
  • Sakutarō Yamakawa as the Fisherman
  • Kanjūrō Arashi (uncredited) as Lord Enma, the King of Hell

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