DEATH BY HANGING [BLU-RAY]

Details

• Release Year: 1968
• Genre: Comedy, Crime, Drama
• Plot: 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.;
• Cast: Kei Satô, Fumio Watanabe, Toshirô Ishidô, Masao Adachi, Rokkô Toura, Hôsei Komatsu, Masao Matsuda, Akiko Koyama, Do-yun Yu, Shizuo Satô, Takashi Ueno, Nagisa Ôshima, Michinori Fukao, Mamoru Sasaki, Tsutomu Tamura, Mary Mackenzie, Takuji Yamaguchi, Yasuhiro Yoshioka, Sueko Shiraishi, Hikaru Hayashi, Hideo Nishizaki, Shigemasa Toda
• Director: Nagisa Ôshima
• Runtime: 1:58
• Company: Oshima Productions Ltd., Art Theatre Guild, Sozosha, Janus Films, The Criterion Collection
• Media Format: Movie