Jigokuhen (1969)

During the Heian era, the ruler Archduke Horikawa (Jinsuke Nakamura) ordered contemporary talented painter Liang Xiu (Nakadai Tatsuya) to paint bliss to decorate the endless birthday courtyard, but Liangxiu presented it to hell, which was hated by Dagong. Although Liang Xiu is perverse, she loves her only daughter Liangxiang (Yoko Naito). One day the archduke stumbled upon Liang Xiang, who chased after the monkey, and loved it very much, so he was taken into the palace. Liangxiu asked for the release of his daughter, but the archduke refused and ordered his painting "hell to change". Liangxiu obeyed, and in order to make the painting realistic, he asked the archduke to put a maid in the car and set it on fire. The archduke agreed, but Liangxiu found that the maid in the car was his daughter. Adapted from the Japanese literary master Ryunosuke Akutagawa's short story of the same name. ©Douban