They should have known better. Director Seijun Suzuki had different ideas. He turned a standard B-grade script into an oddly lush movie with faintly surreal sets, and a thing or two to say about toeing the organizational line. While presented in the original widescreen, this is not, however, enhanced for widescreen televisions. The movie starts out with an odd, grainy black and white opening with only occasional splashes of color, and then goes into full color with the opening credits and overhead shots of Tokyo.
Color is very important throughout, and is used to set the mood of the scene.
Most of the time only simple combinations of colors are chosen. There is also, of course, some singing from sultry Chiharu. The only extra is an interesting twenty-minute interview with the director, although I'm not sure about the translations. I don't speak Japanese, but Suzuki spoke for long periods of time with the same one-line translation on the bottom of the screen. Overall a very interesting cinematic experience.