Description
Genius provocateur Nagisa Oshima, an influential figure in the Japanese New Wave of the 1960s, made one of his most startling political statements with the compelling, pitch-black satire Death by Hanging.
In this macabre farce, a Korean man is sentenced to death in Japan but survives his execution, sending the authorities into a panic about what to do next. At once disturbing and oddly amusing, Oshima’s constantly surprising film is a subversive and surreal indictment of both capital punishment and the treatment of Korean immigrants in his country. Description courtesy of Janus Films.
(Dir.: Nagisa Oshima, Japan, 1968, 118 min., 35mm, Japanese with English subtitles)
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