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8 December 1971 (USA) morePlot:
A Korean man is sentenced to death by hanging, but he survives the execution. For the following two hours, his executioners try to work out how to handle the situation in this black farce. | add synopsisAwards:
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Kafka meets Japan moreCast
(Complete credited cast) | Kei Sato | ... | Prison warden |
| Fumio Watanabe | ... | Education Officer |
| Toshirô Ishidô | ... | Priest |
| Masao Adachi | ... | Chief of guards |
| Rokko Toura | ... | Doctor |
| Hosei Komatsu | ... | District attorney |
| Masao Matsuda | ... | Secretary of the D.A. |
| Akiko Koyama | ... | Korean woman |
| Do-yun Yu | ... | The convict |
| Nagisa Oshima | ... | Narrator |
| rest of cast listed alphabetically: | |||
| Masayuki Hoshi | ||
| Yuki Osaka | ||
| Daiji Ozeki | ||
| Keiko Sakurai | ||
| Shizui Sato | ... | Guard |
| Kurumi Suzuki | ||
| Akiko Terayima | ||
| Takashi Ueno | ... | Guard |
| Takao Usui | ||
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117 minCountry:
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1.96 : 1 moreSound Mix:
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This is one of the most complex and troubling films that I have seen lately. I know unfortunately too little about Nagisa Oshima, beyond his being the director of the famous Empire of Senses. Here he gives an amazingly strong film about the fate of one man identified by a one letter name (as in Kafka's Process) facing death by hanging but refusing to die, and losing his memory in the process. The whole bureaucratic system around works to get his memory back in order to make him pay for his crimes. They will re-enact his crimes starting to look crazier and bringing to surface their own demons and prejudices, plunging the hero redeemed innocent by amnesia and themselves in a complex world that mixes ceremony and nightmare. The film is a strong shout of protest against the death penalty, militarism and any repressive system that crashes human dignity.