Issei Sagawa: Excuse Me For Living (1993)
50m
Running Time
November 21, 1993Release Date

Issei Sagawa: Excuse Me For Living (1993)
50m
Running Time
November 21, 1993Release Date
Network & Production Companies


Plot.
A filmed biography of Issei Sagawa, the Japanese student who shot his Dutch girlfriend, cut her up with a meat carver and boiled the remains. He then ate her. Several months later he was declared insane. While in a psychiatric hospital in France he wrote an account of his crime `In the Fog' which sold 200,000 copies. The French released him in 1984 on the condition that he remained in a mental hospital in Japan. One year later the Japanese hospital released him. Since then he has written five books on crime and is a minor celebrity lionised by the avant garde. Sagawa speaks extensively in the programme and reads passages from his books.
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Cast & Crew.

Issei Sagawa
Self

Colin Wilson
Narrator

Suguru Kubota
Self

Tetsuo Amano
Self

Renée Hartevelt
Self (archive footage)

Bernard Marchetli
Self

Yoshi Tezuka
Director
