Jigoku (1960)
“Jigoku” was released in the U.S. as “The Sinners of Hell.” And while many new American titles of foreign genre films miss the mark completely, this one pretty much gets it. The Japanese shocker, released in 1960, shows ahead-of-its-time experimental imagery of folks being graphically tortured in hell. It received such a puzzling reception that it effectively bankrupted its studio, Shintoho.