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(aka "Tokugawa onna keibatsu-shi" or "Female Punishment of the Tokugawa" or "Shogun's Joy of Torture"
or "The Joy of Torture" or "Tokugawa History of Women Punishment" or "Punishment of the Tokugawa Women"")
Directed by Teruo Ishii
Japan 1968
From the outrageous imagination of cult director Teruo Ishii (Orgies of Edo,
Horrors of Malformed Men) comes this infamous omnibus of three shocking tales of
crime and punishment based on true-life documented cases set during the reign of
the Tokugawa shogunate. |
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Theatrical Release: September 28th, 1968
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Review: Arrow - Region FREE - Blu-ray
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Runtime | 1:36:06.510 | |
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2.35 :1 1080P Dual-layered Blu-rayDisc Size: 37,852,578,666 bytesFeature: 27,466,608,960 bytes Video Bitrate: 34.82 MbpsCodec: MPEG-4 AVC Video |
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DTS-HD Master
Audio Japanese 1058 kbps 1.0 / 48 kHz / 1058 kbps / 24-bit (DTS Core: 1.0 /
48 kHz / 768 kbps / 24-bit) Dolby Digital Audio English 192 kbps 2.0 / 48 kHz / 192 kbps |
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Subtitles | English, None | |
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Release Information: Studio: Arrow
2.35 :1 1080P Dual-layered Blu-rayDisc Size: 37,852,578,666 bytesFeature: 27,466,608,960 bytes Video Bitrate: 34.82 MbpsCodec: MPEG-4 AVC Video
Edition Details: • Audio commentary by Japanese cinema expert Tom Mes• Teruo Ishii: Erotic-Grotesque Maestro an exclusively newly filmed interview with the author Patrick Macias (13:23) • Bind, Torture, Thrill author and critic Jasper Sharp discusses the history of torture in Japanese exploitation cinema (25:16) • Original trailer (2:40) • Image gallery (3:10) • Reversible sleeve featuring original and newly commissioned artwork by Jacob Phillips FIRST PRESSING: Illustrated collectors’ booklet featuring new writing on the film by Mark Schilling
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Blu-ray
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NOTE: We have added 66 more large
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On their
Blu-ray,
Arrow Video use a linear PCM mono track (24-bit) in the
original Japanese language. Effects generally centre around violence -
thrashing bamboo sticks, shrieks and screams plus another score by Masao Yagi (Inferno
of Torture,
Yakuza
Law,
An
Actor's Revenge,
Orgies of Edo)
which carries modest weight in the flat, hollow, mono. Arrow Video offer optional English subtitles
on their Region FREE
Blu-ray.
The dialogue subtitle translation seems restrained while still
maintaining explicit implications
The Arrow
Blu-ray
offers a new commentary by
Japanese cinema expert Tom Mes (author of
The Midnight Eye Guide
to New Japanese Film). He talks about this unique, short-lived,
'torture' genre out of Japan. He's a bit hushed but covers extensive
ground discussing other entries, reasons behind the evolution of the
genre and alternate recommendation for those keen on the tattooing
aspects of the film with references to the later
Inferno
of Torture. He is well prepared and insightful. Included is
Teruo Ishii: Erotic-Grotesque Maestro - an exclusive 1/4 hour video
interview with Patrick Macias (author of
TokyoScope: The
Japanese Cult Film Companion.) He talks about
Shogun's Joy of
Torture, the
director and some of the films that
Teruo Ishii did in the late
60s. We also get Jasper Sharp (author of
Behind the Pink
Curtain: The Complete History of Japanese Sex Cinema) discussing
the history of torture in Japanese exploitation cinema for 25-minutes. There is an
original trailer and an image gallery. The package has a reversible sleeve
(see below) featuring original and
newly-commissioned artwork by Jacob Phillips. or the first pressing
there is an illustrated collectors’ booklet featuring new writing on the
film by Mark Schilling. Teruo Ishii's Shogun's Joy of Torture is.... very harsh. I had to turn it off three times. It seemed like there was a straight hour of torture, leering evil men, and a vengeful damaged woman, bondage, moans, screams, violations etc.. None of it seemed erotic and it would certainly be considered tasteless. There is also a fair amount of blood (see nudity and gore samples below,) a prominent male decapitation, inventive restraints, crucifixions, drowning and buckets of water thrown on poor gals in various stockades after they pass out - to awaken them for another round. The tattooing is artistic but Shogun's Joy of Torture is an uncomfortable viewing, to say the least. The Arrow Blu-ray offers the film in a competent technical transfer, the Mes commentary and other revealing extras. The historical value of this genre's mere existence is the fascinating edge to this depraved niche of films. Shogun's Joy of Torture is obviously not to everyone's tastes, but the thick-skinned who are curious are welcome to indulge in another of Arrow's complete Blu-ray packages of this lesser-examined, exploitation, genre. |
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