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.
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Title: Death by Hanging (1968)
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| Kei Satô | ... | Prison warden | |
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Do-yun Yu | ... | R |
| Fumio Watanabe | ... | Education Officer | |
| Hôsei Komatsu | ... | District attorney | |
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Rokkô Toura | ... | Doctor |
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Toshirô Ishidô | ... | Priest |
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Masao Adachi | ... | Chief of guards |
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Masao Matsuda | ... | Secretary of the D.A. |
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Takashi Ueno | ... | Guard |
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Takao Usui | ||
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Daiji Ozeki | ||
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Masayuki Hoshi | ||
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Shizuo Satô | ... | Guard |
| Nagisa Ôshima | ... | Narrator (voice) | |
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Akiko Terayima | ||
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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.
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This film is part of the Criterion Collection, spine #798. See more »Quotes
The convict: A dream seems real, reality seems a dream. Such things happen, don't they?See more »
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8 December 1971 (USA) See more »Also Known As:
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I wasn't expecting it but after the first few minutes of what would seem to be an ordinary documentary the story falls in rapid succession into calamity, mystery, horror, absurdity and heaps upon heaps of surrealism and ultimately falling completely out of touch with reality. We're in new territory here. It's like Buñuel on steroids with a side order of TNT. The film wears you down as the characters flip flop through their machinations about how to deal with the after affects of a botched execution. Why don't they just shoot the guy in the head and get it over with? That would be a hell of a lot easier. I loved this movie, but I'll have to give my brain a few months to digest it before watching it again.