Rent Shogun's Joy of Torture (1968)
3.1 of 5 from 49 ratings
1h 32min
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- Synopsis:
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. The first tale sees the beautiful Mitsu (Masumi Tachibana) going to horrifying lengths to tend to her older brother Shinz (Teruo Yoshida), a carpenter injured in a work accident, but the law catches up on them and metes out a terrifying retribution after they violate the ultimate taboo. In the second, unfettered passions in a Buddhist nunnery are not allowed to go unpunished after abbess Reih (Yukie Kagawa) and her attendant Rintoku (Naomi Shiraishi) encounter a virile young monk from a neighbouring temple. In the closing segment, a sadistic torturer (Fumio Watanabe) attempts to show a tattoo artist (Asao Koike) how to depict convincing expressions of faces of pain in his work by allowing him to sketch a selection of Europeans as they are tortured for entering Japan with the aim of spreading Christianity. - Actors:
- Teruo Yoshida, Masumi Tachibana, Fumio Watanabe, Reiko Mikasa, Miki Obana, Yukie Kagawa, Shin'ichirô Hayashi, Asao Koike, Kichijirô Ueda, Tamaki Sawa, Mie Hanabusa, Keiko Kojima, Yûko Minakaze, Ryôta Minowada, Kinji Nakamura, Naomi Shiraishi
- Directors:
- Teruo Ishii
- Producers:
- Kanji Amao, Shigeru Okada
- Writers:
- Teruo Ishii
- Aka:
- Tokugawa onna keibatsu-shi / Female Punishment of the Tokugawa / The Joy of Torture / Tokugawa History of Women Punishment / Punishment of the Tokugawa Women
- Genres:
- Classics, Drama, Horror
- Countries:
- Japan
- BBFC:
- Release Date:
- 22/02/2021
- Run Time:
- 96 minutes
- Languages:
- Japanese Dolby Digital 1.0 Mono
- Subtitles:
- English
- Formats:
- Pal
- Aspect Ratio:
- Widescreen 2.35:1
- Colour:
- Colour
- BLU-RAY Regions:
- B
- Bonus:
- Audio commentary by Japanese cinema expert Tom Mes
- Teruo Ishii: Erotic-Grotesque Maestro-an exclusive, newly filmed interview with the author Patrick Macias
- Bind, Torture, Thrill - author and critic Jasper Sharp discusses the history of torture in Japanese exploitation cinema
- Original Trailer
- Image Gallery
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