Death by Hanging
Nagisa Oshima, 1968, 118 min

“Genius provocateur Nagisa Oshima 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.” – Janus Films

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Screening as part of our Histoire(s) du cinéma series