Lady from Hell
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| Directed by | Motoyoshi Oda |
| Screenplay by | Akira Kurosawa Motosada Nishiki |
| Produced by | Tomoyuki Tanaka Keiji Matsuzaki |
| Starring | Michiyo Kogure Eitaro Ozawa Takashi Shimura |
| Cinematography | Shunichiro Nakao |
| Music by | Ryōichi Hattori |
Production companies | Toho Matsuzaki Productions |
| Distributed by | Toho |
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Running time | 72 minutes |
| Country | Japan |
| Language | Japanese |
Lady from Hell (Japanese: 地獄の貴婦人, Hepburn: Jigoku no Kifujin) is a 1949 Japanese action drama film directed by Motoyoshi Oda and co-written by Akira Kurosawa, with special effects by Eiji Tsuburaya. The film has been called a "protest movie" which "portrayed a cornucopia of corruption and indicted every known example of postwar exploitation: black-marketeering, crooked politicians, blackmailing journalists, and a decaying aristocracy." Lady of Hell is regarded as one of Oda's most celebrated films.