1968 Film Editorial note

Shogun's Joy of Torture

Original title: 徳川女刑罰史

Also known as History of Tokugawa Female Punishment

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Teruo Ishii's 1968 historical anthology centres on opposing attitudes toward punishment, presented through three dramatic stories.

Toei places the film within Ishii's late-1960s studio cycle. It is a source for the cinematic representation of historical punishment, not documentary evidence of Edo-period practice.

Home-video cover of History of Tokugawa Female Punishment
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