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Death By Hanging Dvd

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Collection: Criterion Collection
Format: DVD
Year: 1968
Director: Nagisa Oshima
Genre: Crime
Cast: Yung-do Yun, Kei Sato, Fumio Watanabe, Rokko Toura, Masao Adachi, Toshiro Ishido, Hosei Komatsu, Masao Matsuda, Akiko Koyama, Shizuo Sato, Takashi Ueno, Nagisa Oshima
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Language: Japanese
Release Date: 2016-02-16
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.