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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 Ko...

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Other Authors: Ōshima, Nagisa, 1932-2013 (Screenwriter), Tamura, Tsutomu, 1933-1997 (Screenwriter), Sasaki, Mamoru, 1936-2006 (Screenwriter), Fukao, Michinori (Screenwriter), Satō, Kei, 1928-2010 (Actor), Watanabe, Fumio, 1929-2004 (Actor), Yun, Yung-do, 1943- (Actor), Yoshioka, Yasuhiro, 1934- (director of photography.), Hayashi, Hikaru, 1931-2012 (composer (expression))
Format: Video Blu-ray Disc
Language:Japanese
Language Notes:In Japanese, with optional subtitles in English.
Published: [United States] : The Criterion Collection, [2016]
Edition:Blu-ray edition.
Series:Criterion collection ; 798.
Subjects:
Capital punishment > Japan > Drama.
Hanging > Japan > Drama.
Koreans > Japan > Drama.
Foreign films.
Motion pictures, Japanese.
Feature films.
Fiction films.
Dark comedy films.
Comedy films.
Crime films.

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Call Number: PN1995.9.F67 D43354 2016b
Notes: This Blu-ray disc will not play in standard DVD players
 
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