Jigoku

A university student who becomes tormented by guilt after a fatal hit-and-run. His attempt to do the right thing collides with Yukiko’s pleas, revealing a conflict between personal duty and the consequences of a single impulsive act.

Shirō’s fiancée who dies in a taxi crash while trying to reach the police. Her death haunts Shirō and she later appears as a spectral presence connected to the other victims and the unraveling of family secrets.

Shirō’s colleague who drives the fatal route and shows little guilt. He becomes a catalyst for the unraveling of everyone around him and meets a violent end, underscoring the film’s fatalistic mood.

A yakuza gang leader whose death sets off a chain of vengeance and complicates the moral calculus of the main characters. His presence looms as a reminder of street-level violence behind the social facade.

A strip bar worker who becomes entangled with Shirō and Kyōichi’s circle. Her pursuit of truth about Shirō’s culpability leads to a fatal turn that intensifies the vengeance loop.

Shirō’s dying mother who lives in a retirement community. She embodies aging, hidden sins, and the weight of a generation’s private wrongs that echo into the present.

Shirō’s father, who maintains an open affair, representing the moral decay within the family. His actions are part of the larger web of complicity that drives the story toward catastrophe.

A painter in the retirement community who is suspected of a crime and who embodies the film’s fixation on Hell. His past romance with Ito threads into the current disintegration of the family.

The community doctor whose diagnostic missteps contribute to Ito’s illness. His quiet professional complicity highlights how systemic corruption can affect ordinary lives.

Yukiko’s father and Shirō’s professor; his authority and decisions intersect with the broader web of guilt and responsibility.

Yajima’s wife, whose life is entangled with the community’s hidden sins, contributing to the collective downfall that unfolds at the climactic party.

A witness to the hit-and-run who becomes a determined figure of vengeance, orchestrating actions that escalate the community’s doom.