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Title:

Death by hanging / screenplay by Tsutomu Tamura, Mamoru Saski, Michinori Fukao, Nagisa Oshima ; produced by Masayuki Nakajima, Takuji Yamaguchi, Nagisa Oshima ; directed by Nagisa Oshima.

Edition:

DVD special edition ; DVD edition ; widescreen.

Publisher:

The Criterion Collection,

Copyright Date:

2016

Description:

1 videodisc (118 min.) : sound, black and white ; 4 3/4 in.

Subject:

Capital punishment--Japan--Drama.
Hanging--Japan--Drama.
Koreans--Japan--Drama.
Motion pictures, Japanese.
Feature films.
Comedy films.
Crime films.
Video recordings for the hearing impaired.

Other Authors:

Ōshima, Nagisa, 1932-2013, screenwriter. screenwriter.
Tamura, Tsutomu, 1933-1997, screenwriter.
Sasaki, Mamoru, 1936-2006, screenwriter.
Fukao, Michinori, screenwriter.
Criterion Collection (Firm), publisher.

Notes:

Title from container. DVD release of the 1968 motion picture. Widescreen (1.85:1). Special features: New interview with critic Tony Rayns ; Nagisa Oshima's 1965 experiemental short documentary Diary of Yunbogi ; trailer ; essay by critic Howard Hampton and a 1968 director's statement by Oshima. Kei Sato, Fumio Watanabe, Yung-Do Yun.

Summary:

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 Korean immigrants in his country.

Series:

Criterion collection ; 798.

ISBN:

1681431084
9781681431086

UPC:

715515167918

Locations:

BOPG851 -- Ames Public Library (Ames)

CAPH522 -- Iowa City Public Library (Iowa City)

OVUX522 -- University of Iowa Libraries (Iowa City)