Movie Description
Issei Sagawa: Excuse Me For Living
(1993)Overview
A filmed biography of Issei Sagawa, the Japanese student who shot his Dutch girlfriend, cut her up with a meat carver and boiled the remains. He then ate her. Several months later he was declared insane. While in a psychiatric hospital in France he wrote an account of his crime `In the Fog' which sold 200,000 copies. The French released him in 1984 on the condition that he remained in a mental hospital in Japan. One year later the Japanese hospital released him. Since then he has written five books on crime and is a minor celebrity lionised by the avant garde. Sagawa speaks extensively in the programme and reads passages from his books.
Featured Crew
- Director : Yoshi Tezuka,Nigel Evans
- Producer : Nigel Evans
- Writer : Nigel Evans
- Editor : Krystyna Pobóg-Malinowska
- Cast : Issei Sagawa,Colin Wilson,Suguru Kubota,Tetsuo Amano,Renée Hartevelt,Bernard Marchetli
Cast
Self
Narrator
Self
Self
Self (archive footage)
Self
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Facts
Original TitleIssei Sagawa: Excuse Me For Living
Status Released
Release Information
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1993-11-21
Original LanguageUnknown
Runtime 00h 50m
Production CompaniesFilm4 Productions
Genres
- Documentary
