Issei Sagawa: Excuse Me For Living (1993)

ALL 11/21/1993 (en) Documentary 50 Min
  • Release
    11/21/1993
  • Production
    Film4 Productions
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  • Original title
    Issei Sagawa: Excuse Me For Living
  • Original language
    en
  • Production Cost
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Overview

A filmed biography of Issei Sagawa, the Japanese student who shot his Dutch girlfriend, cut her up with a meat carver and boiled the remains. He then ate her. Several months later he was declared insane. While in a psychiatric hospital in France he wrote an account of his crime `In the Fog' which sold 200,000 copies. The French released him in 1984 on the condition that he remained in a mental hospital in Japan. One year later the Japanese hospital released him. Since then he has written five books on crime and is a minor celebrity lionised by the avant garde. Sagawa speaks extensively in the programme and reads passages from his books.

  1. Story

  2. Nigel Evans

    Producer



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Issei Sagawa: Excuse Me For Living (1993) 50 Min

ALL 11/21/1993 (en)
Documentary
  • Release 11/21/1993
  • Production
    Film4 Productions
  • Original title Issei Sagawa: Excuse Me For Living
  • en
  • Revenue0.00

Overview

A filmed biography of Issei Sagawa, the Japanese student who shot his Dutch girlfriend, cut her up with a meat carver and boiled the remains. He then ate her. Several months later he was declared insane. While in a psychiatric hospital in France he wrote an account of his crime `In the Fog' which sold 200,000 copies. The French released him in 1984 on the condition that he remained in a mental hospital in Japan. One year later the Japanese hospital released him. Since then he has written five books on crime and is a minor celebrity lionised by the avant garde. Sagawa speaks extensively in the programme and reads passages from his books.

  1. Yoshi Tezuka, Nigel Evans

    Director

  2. Story

  3. Krystyna Pobóg-Malinowska

    Editor

  4. Nigel Evans

    Producer