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Bookmark this pageDeath by Hanging (1968)
Director: Nagisa Oshima
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From Time Out Film Guide
All of Oshima's films deal in a challenging and committed way with specifically Japanese questions and problems. Death by Hanging is an 'absurd' comedy about the situation of Korean immigrants in Japan, centering on a state execution that goes wrong, mounted as a sort of witty Brechtian argument.Author: TR
Cast & crew
Director: Nagisa Oshima
Producer: Masayuki Nakajima, Takuji Yamaguchi, Nagisa Oshima
Cast: Yun-Do Yun, Kei Sato, Fumio Watanabe, Toshiro Ishido, Masao Adachi, Mutsuhiro Toura full cast
Duration: 117 mins
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