Inn of Evil

Inochi bô ni furô

Japan

1971

121 Min

Black and White

2.35:1

Japanese

Currently 3.9/5 Stars.
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PROD Gin'ichi Kishimoto, Masayuki Sato, Hideyuki Shiino

SCR Yasuko Miyazaki, Shugoro Yamamoto

CAST Tatsuya Nakadai, Komaki Kurihara, Wakako Sakai, Shigeru Kôyama, Ichirô Nakatani, Kei Satô, Yôsuke Kondô, Shin Kishida, Daigo Kusano

Masaki Kobayashi

Masaki Kobayashi (小林正樹, Kobayashi Masaaki, February 14, 1916–October 4, 1996) was a Japanese director.

Among his films is Kwaidan (1965), a collection of four ghost stories drawn from the book by Lafcadio Hearn, each of which has a surprise ending.

Kobayashi also directed The Human Condition, a trilogy on the effects of World War II on a Japanese pacifist and socialist. The total length of the films is over 9 hours. Other notable films include Harakiri (1962) and Samurai Rebellion (1967). Harakiri won him an award at the 1963 Cannes Film Festival, solidifying his place in the history of cinema.

He was also a candidate for directing the Japanese sequences for Tora! Tora! Tora! (1970) but instead Kinji Fukasaku and Toshio Masuda were chosen.

Kobayashi, himself a pacifist, was drafted into the Imperial Japanese Army during World War II, but refused to fight and refused promotion to a rank higher than private. —Wikipedia