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Island of Horrors (1970)

Island of Horrors (1970)

Drama Crime Thriller Horror
Release Date: 1970, October 14
Directors: Toshiaki Kunihara
Countries: Japan
Production: Daiei Film
Cast: Kazuo Katō, Keiko Koyanagi, Hiroshi Kondō, Masakazu Tamura, Hiroko Sakurai, Gen Kimura, Genshū Hanayagi, Reiko Kasahara, Yuki Aresa, Maya Kitajima, Naomi Kobayashi, Natsuko Oka

Overview:

Two women are ferried to a small prison colony on the remote and barren prison island, where they and their fellow inmates are forced to perform perilous slave labor along the island’s treacherous cliffs, overseen by both an unforgiving sun and a crew of abusive male wardens. Meanwhile, the arrival of a newcomer among the island’s administrators, a disgraced policeman who is also the son of Nagasaki’s governor, creates dissension between the officials that, along with an untimely outbreak of bubonic plague on the island, ultimately sets the stage for a daring escape attempt on the part of the prisoners.