Death by Hanging

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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.
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Release Date | Feb 16, 2016 |
Starring | Kei Satô, Fumio Watanabe, Toshirô Ishidô, Masao Adachi, Rokkô Toura |
Director | Nagisa Ôshima |
Screen Format | Widescreen |
Video Format | 1.85:1 |
Audio | LPCM Mono |
Language | Japanese |
Subtitles | English |
Year | 1968 |
Running Time | 118 Minutes |
Genre | Drama |
Version | US |
PAX-Code | PAX0007611036 |
Item Code | 715515167819 |
features
- New 4K digital restoration, with uncompressed monaural soundtrack on the Blu-ray
- New interview with critic Tony Rayns
- New high-definition digital transfer of director Nagisa Oshima’s 1965 experimental short documentary Diary of Yunbogi
- Trailer
- New English subtitle translation
- An essay by critic Howard Hampton and a 1968 director’s statement by Oshima

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