Jigoku

Shirō and Yukiko announce their engagement, tying their future together. Tamura drives them home and, on a side street, hits Kyōichi, a yakuza leader, killing him. Kyōichi's mother witnesses the crash and vows to track them down for revenge.

Shirō, wracked by guilt, wants to report the hit-and-run to the police. He and Yukiko decide to take a taxi toward the station, despite her pleas to walk. The taxi crashes, killing Yukiko and plunging Shirō deeper into despair.

Yukiko's funeral follows her sudden death, leaving Shirō grief-stricken. He meets Yoko, a strip bar worker, who senses Shirō's culpability and reveals her own vendetta against those involved. Yoko, along with Kyōichi's mother, begins plotting revenge against Shirō and the others.

Shirō learns his mother Ito is dying and travels to the retirement community her husband Gōzō runs. He meets a circle of residents, including Ensai the painter, Akagawa the former reporter, Hariya the detective, Kasuma the doctor, and Sachiko the nurse who bears a striking resemblance to Yukiko. Ito's condition worsens as the visit unfolds.

Ito dies as Shirō visits, and Ensai berates Gōzō for his open affair and missed responsibilities. Tamura then appears and reveals that each resident has some complicity in a murder, listing Yajima, Hariya, Akagawa, and Kasuma as participants in various past wrongs. The revelation unsettles Shirō and deepens the sense that everyone is implicated.

Yoko tracks Shirō and confronts him on a rope bridge, revealing her identity as Kyōichi's grieving girlfriend. She confronts him about his role in the hit-and-run while asking for vengeance. The confrontation ends with her slipping and falling to her death.

Tamura reappears amid the community's turmoil and, after a struggle, falls into the gorge, leaving his fate uncertain. The act underscores the collapse of any safety within Shirō's circle. The event paves the way for the coming turmoil at the tenth anniversary celebration.

Shirō returns for the community's tenth anniversary party, where cheap, rancid fish is served to the residents. Chaos erupts as the intoxicated crowd witnesses suicides and murders—Mr. and Mrs. Yajima kill themselves, and other residents fall to the tainted fish. Kyōichi's mother poisons the remaining wine, sealing the victims' fate.

Amid the mayhem, Tamura shoots Sachiko, enraging Shirō. In a fury, Shirō strangles Tamura to death, and Kyōichi's mother delivers a similar fate to him, ensuring Tamura's demise by both hands. The deaths intensify the sense of moral rot that has infected the community.

Shirō is cast into Limbo, where Yukiko reveals she was pregnant with their child. She sends the baby girl Harumi away on the Sanzu River and begs Shirō to save her. In Hell, Shirō encounters the torments of people from his life until he faces Enma's judgment and learns that Sachiko is Ito's daughter and that Shirō is Ensai's son.

Back in the realm of the living, the party's attendees lie dead, including Ensai who hanged himself after finishing a portrait of Hell. Yukiko and Sachiko appear, smiling and calling to Shirō as sister and lover, suggesting their souls are purified to ascend to Heaven together with Shirō's. The scene closes with a sense that Shirō's sacrifices may lead to Heaven for the remaining souls.