Issei Sagawa: Excuse Me For Living

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.

Details

Status

Released

Release date

November 21, 1993

Original language

English

Spoken languages

English, French, Japanese

Countries

United Kingdom

Production

Film4 Productions

Cast

Issei Sagawa,Suguru Kubota,Tetsuo Amano,Colin Wilson,Bernard Marchetli,Renée Hartevelt

Director

Yoshi Tezuka,Nigel Evans

Writer

Nigel Evans

Producer

Nigel Evans

Budget

Not recorded

Revenue

Not recorded

IMDb

tt8185006