Issei Sagawa: Excuse Me For Living

Issei Sagawa: Excuse Me For Living (1993)


  • Genre: Documentary
  • Release Date: 1993-11-21
  • Runtime: 0h 50min
  • Language: English
  • Production Company: Film4 Productions
  • Production Country: United Kingdom
  • Directors: Nigel Evans, Yoshi Tezuka.

Summary

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.

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  • Issei Sagawa

    as Self
  • Colin Wilson

    as Narrator
  • Suguru Kubota

    as Self
  • Tetsuo Amano

    as Self
  • Renée Hartevelt

    as Self (archive footage)
  • Bernard Marchetli

    as Self
Directing Nigel Evans Director
Directing Yoshi Tezuka Director
Writing Nigel Evans Writer
Editing Krystyna Pobóg-Malinowska Editor
Production Nigel Evans Producer

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