Director- Ichikawa Kon.This is the second work I have seen of his.This film is a part of the Taiyozoku or Sun Tribe films of the fifties and sixties, as well as a part of the Japanese New Wave.I didn't enjoy this work one bit, as I had fundamentally different expectations for how the story would progress post the incident with the two girls.I considered the name Punishment Room to be a reference to a chamber in which the protagonist will be subjected to torture for his inhumane deeds. But this doesn't happen in the film.Instead, the name of the film references the protagonist's indecisiveness in terms of every life decision. The ordeal he has to suffer is nowhere near enough as payback for all the mayhem he caused, and thus, the film loses points from me.The protagonist's behavior with his father and mother made me hate him even more as it shows his entitlement pretty well.Throughout the first half, I was waiting for adequate payback for his greediness, but I had to keep on waiting even after it ended, as it never happened.I didn't care for the girl falling in love with her rapist, as it portrays the wrong kind of message, inciting the viewers to use the same method to procure a relationship, too. I also don't agree with the director's choice not to demonise him wholly. I didn't agree with the showing of how he accomplished the task of drugging the duo as it unknwoingly romanticizes their deeds in a similar way to Crime Patrol.The shooting style of the film appears to be amateurish and doesn't feel at all like the director had started making films roughly ten years before it was released.The acting in the film is not good enough, thus making their characters appear to be in high-school rather than university.The ending with the protagonist being stabbed by the girl is too quick a death for a person like him.Overall, this was a disappointing film to say the least and leaves a whole lot to be desired alongside a much different treatment given to the script.

Director- Ichikawa Kon.This is the second work I have seen of his.This film is a part of the Taiyozoku or Sun Tribe films of the fifties and sixties, as well as a part of the Japanese New Wave.I didn't enjoy this work one bit, as I had fundamentally different expectations for how the story would progress post the incident with the two girls.I considered the name Punishment Room to be a reference to a chamber in which the protagonist will be subjected to torture for his inhumane deeds. But this doesn't happen in the film.Instead, the name of the film references the protagonist's indecisiveness in terms of every life decision. The ordeal he has to suffer is nowhere near enough as payback for all the mayhem he caused, and thus, the film loses points from me.The protagonist's behavior with his father and mother made me hate him even more as it shows his entitlement pretty well.Throughout the first half, I was waiting for adequate payback for his greediness, but I had to keep on waiting even after it ended, as it never happened.I didn't care for the girl falling in love with her rapist, as it portrays the wrong kind of message, inciting the viewers to use the same method to procure a relationship, too. I also don't agree with the director's choice not to demonise him wholly. I didn't agree with the showing of how he accomplished the task of drugging the duo as it unknwoingly romanticizes their deeds in a similar way to Crime Patrol.The shooting style of the film appears to be amateurish and doesn't feel at all like the director had started making films roughly ten years before it was released.The acting in the film is not good enough, thus making their characters appear to be in high-school rather than university.The ending with the protagonist being stabbed by the girl is too quick a death for a person like him.Overall, this was a disappointing film to say the least and leaves a whole lot to be desired alongside a much different treatment given to the script.