Title: Death by Hanging (Criterion Collection)
Format: Blu-ray
Label: Criterion Collection
Genre: Foreign-Japanese, Comedy Video
UPC: 715515167819
Release Date: 2016
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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