“The Room of Violence” ( Japanese 処刑 の с , shokei-no hei ; English Punishment Room ) is a Japanese black-and-white drama film directed by Kon Ichikawa based on Shintaro Ishihara ’s novel, released in 1956 .
| Violence room | |
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| Jap. 処刑 の с ( shokey no hei ) | |
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| Genre | movie drama |
| Producer | Kon Ichikawa |
| Producer | Hideo Nagata |
| Author script | Natsuto Wada Keiji hasebe |
| In the main cast | Hiroshi Kawaguchi Keizo Kawasaki , Ayako Wakao |
| Operator | Yoshihisa Nakagawa |
| Composer | Koji Takeu |
| Film company | Day |
| Duration | 96 minutes |
| A country |  Japan |
| Tongue | Japanese |
| Year | 1956 |
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Story
The hero of the film, a fourth-year student at Katsumi University, Shimada hates the vulgarity that reigns in the adult world. That is why he hates his parents. His father, suffering from a disease of the stomach, works to exhaustion for a meager salary. Katsumi has nothing for the soul except the childish principle of "doing what I want." He takes part in the discussion of certain issues, but he is still completely yellow-handed and simply ridiculous in his judgments. Unnoticed, the young man is drawn into bad company. Katsumi often speaks out against adult selfishness, against old morality, knocks down her teacher on the street, blackmail her father, and once, having met a pretty student Akiko, brings her to her place and lulls the girl with sleeping pills, raping her. Thus, his protest against the adult world is expressed only in hooliganism and sexual licentiousness. When Akiko wakes up and asks him if he did this to her because of unspoken love, Katsumi will only laugh at the poor girl and say that he no longer intends to meet her. Soon, Katsumi's friend Ryoji is having a party. A group of hooligans break into the amusing students, whose leader Takejima grabs the money raised by the organizers of the evening. Katsumi rushes after him to take the money. He runs into a bar in the back of the Ginza (Tokyo's main street). Takejima's friends grab Katsumi and inflict brutal lynching on him. At this time, Akiko appears in the bar, and angry at her rapist, she, in a fit of despair, grabs a knife and rushes to Katsumi. Overcoming the unbearable pain of a wound, Katsumi crawls along the street to where the light is visible.
Cast
... Ichikawa was unlucky in the fact that the “Room of Violence” appeared on the screens in the midst of the hype raised around the “solar tribe” [comm. 1] . Critics and viewers did not want to calmly accept this film. All conversations revolved around the fact that the film turned out to be a scene of sexual intercourse committed without love, in a fit of despair. (To a large extent, the responsibility for this undoubtedly rests with Ichikawa.) And what would happen if this scene did not appear in the film? Then, undoubtedly, the image of a young man protesting against reality, drawn by the writer Shintaro Ishihara, would have caused more sympathy, then a significant problem would have appeared in the center of the film.
... I believe that, with the exception of this scene, The Room of Violence is a masterpiece, the best of what Ichikawa has done so far.
- Hiroshi Kawaguchi - Katsumi Shimada
- Keizo Kawasaki - Takejima
- Ayako Wakao - Akiko Aoti
- Seiji Miyaguchi - Chania, Katsumi's father
- Teruko Kishi - Haru, Katsumi's mother
- Nobuo Nakamura - Professor
Premieres
- - June 28, 1956 - the national premiere of the film in Tokyo [2] .
About the movie
The film “The Room of Violence” is considered one of the most controversial in the work of Kon Ichikawa, in many respects this was caused by the hype raised in the Japanese press due to the showing of the rape scene by the main character of a girl named Akiko. At that time, it was a pretty bold scene, which the Japanese movie audience has not yet become accustomed to. However, it was after the critically acclaimed films of this, 1956, “The Burmese Harp ” and “The Room of Violence”, directed by Kon Ichikawa that will become one of the most prominent Japanese filmmakers.
Nominations
Kinem Jumpo Magazine Award (1957)
- Nomination in the category "Best Film of the Year" (according to the results of voting, took only 21 places) [3] .
... A lot of controversy caused the “Room of violence” (1956), according to some critics, which left an unnecessarily repulsive impression. This is one of the so-called series of films about the solar tribe. The action of the protagonist, the student who gave the girl a drink and raped her, shots of the bed scene - all this shocked the Japanese public, not used to such spectacles on the screen. The young student hates the vulgarity that reigns in the world, and therefore hates both his father and his mother, who, in his opinion, do not live a real life. However, along with disgusting features, it combines the purity and honesty of youth.
Comments
- ↑ Movies about the “solar tribe” - a lot of films that appeared on Japanese screens in 1956 after the film “The Sunny Season ” directed by Takumi Furukawa, staged like the “Room of Violence” based on Shintaro Ishihara’s novel. All these films are united by one theme - showing rebellious youth against the adult world.
Notes
- ↑ Iwasaki, Akira . "Contemporary Japanese cinema." M. - “Art”, 1962. S. 345.
- ↑ Shokei no heya (1956) on IMDb-Release Info
- ↑ Kinema Junpo Top YBY at rinkworks.com
- ↑ Director's Encyclopedia . Cinema of Asia, Africa, Australia, Latin America. - M.: Research Institute of Cinema, Mainland, 2001. - Pp. 47.
Links
- The Room of Violence on the Internet Movie Database
Literature
- “ Director's Encyclopedia : Cinema of Asia, Africa, Australia, Latin America”, Scientific Research Institute of Cinema, Vetrova T. N. (editor-in-chief), Mainland –M. 2001, pp. 47-48. ISBN 5-85646-053-7 .
- Iwasaki, Akira , “Contemporary Japanese Cinema”, 1958, (Russian translation 1962, Translators: Vladimir Grivnin, L. Levin), - M .: Art, 1962, S. 224-228, 230, 233, 234, 342—346 .