An executive accused of murder by his own victim is brought before the court of the dead to answer for his crimes.
Direction
Negishi creates genuine dread in 50 tight minutes.
Sound
Shiozawa's voice work drips with corporate rot.
Production
1991 OVA budget stretched to Gothic extremes.
Director
Hiroshi Negishi
Kaneto Shiozawa
Hoichiro Ohma (voice)
Keiko Yamamoto
Junko Asami (voice)
Miki Ito
Nanase (voice)
Shinya Ôtaki
Susumu Watanabe (voice)
Tomomichi Nishimura
Shimon (voice)
Wataru Takagi
Male Employee (voice)
Yuri Amano
Female Employee (voice)
Yuzuru Fujimoto
Parrot (voice)
Daisuke Gori
Enma-Oh (voice)
Issei Futamata
Koji Kawamata (voice)
Hideyuki Hori
Ryuichi Murakami (voice)
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Part of the 'Yami no Teiō' series exploring Japanese corporate anxiety through supernatural lens—bubble economy guilt made literal.
Kaneto Shiozawa voiced Griffith in Berserk that same year; his soft-spoken villains became a signature. The hell judges' designs borrow heavily from Buddhist iconography of the Ten Kings.
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