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