Original title: 処刑の部屋 / Shokei no heya
Year: 1956
Country: Japan
Region code: A/B
Content: Blu-Ray
EAN: 5060974684335
Image: 1080p
HDR: -
Audio: Japanese - Original Uncompressed Mono
Subtitles: English
Age rating: TBC
Genre: Drama
Cast: Hiroshi Kawaguchi, Keizo Kawasaki, Seiji Miyaguchi
Director: Kon Ichikawa
Synopsis:
A bored university student takes teenage rebellion to extremes, as he bullies classmates, scams his father out of his savings and rapes a college girl after spiking her drink. But as the number of targets grows, his victims band together and devise a plan for revenge, to be carried out in the titular punishment room. One of his darkest and most controversial films, Punishment Room saw director Kon Ichikawa (Ten Women in Black, Fires on the Plain) courting scandal with his unflinching depiction of abuse and rape among amoral post-war Japanese youth. Based on the story by future Tokyo governor Shintaro Ishihara, this film was highly divisive upon its initial release, but perhaps more pertinent today than ever.
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