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Here for sale on region free DVD in Japanese with English subtitles and excellent picture quality in its original full screen format is "PUNISHMENT ROOM" released in 1956 and directed by Kon Ichikawa.

The DVD ships in a DVD case with artwork cover.

Punishment Room is a provocatively non-judgmental affair as brashly aggressive student Katsumi strides his way through extortion and gang warfare. Various authority figures come in for vigorous lambasting, yet the protagonist’s indiscriminate rage is hardly productive either, and Ichikawa’s restless camera, high contrast lighting and jazz splashed soundtrack refuse to allow the viewer a moment’s complacency. At the release in the 1950s it was met with angry protests from parent-groups and the Japanese government. The photographing by Yoshihisa Nakagawa is top notch with a brilliant use of lighting contrasts dislocated compositions which suits the dramatic moments. A remarkable and still-edgy precursor to Oshima and the iconoclasm of the 1960s.


REGION FREE DVD / original Japanese audio track / English subtitles

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