Death by Hanging (Kôshikei) (1968)

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Directed by

Nagisa Oshima

Starring (View all)

Kei Sato
Prison warden

Do-yun Yu
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Fumio Watanabe
Education Officer

Hôsei Komatsu
District attorney

Rokko Toura
Doctor

Toshirô Ishidô
Priest

Masao Adachi
Chief of guards

Masao Matsuda
Secretary of the D.A.

Written by

Nagisa Oshima
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3 years, 7 months ago at Sep 5 0:10

fernando

(OK) Good beginning but then, becomes so selfconscious, humour forced, reiterative... Undefined point of view, not of the 'twice hanged hero' that doen't recognice himself, not of the idiotic gardian capable of killing a woman...

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A Korean man is sentenced to death by hanging, but he survives the execution. For the following two hours, his executioners try to work out how to handle the situation in this black farce.

Tags: Japan (5), Execution (3), 1960s (3), Crime (2), Japanese (2), Capital Punishment (2), Death Sentence (1), Trapdoor (1), Hanging (1), Convict (1), Long Take (1), Metaphor (1), Injustice (1), Social Satire (1), Racial Issues (1), Executioner (1), War Crime (1), Post War Japan (1), East Asia (1), 117 Min. (1)

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