Death by Hanging [Criterion Collection] [Blu-ray]

Director: Nagisa Oshima Nagisa Oshima

Overview

A Korean criminal is hung for the alleged rape and murder of two girls. The execution fails to kill the man, who has lost his memory in the process. He cannot be executed again until he regains his memory and realizes who he is and what he has done. In a darkly comedic scene, the police try to re-enact the main events in the man's life in an attempt to jar his memory and again make him eligible for execution. A priest hopes he can save the man's soul, but the authorities only wish to make the criminal remember enough so he can be put to death. The Korean man begins to realize he is symbolic of all Koreans in Japan who face daily racial prejudice and injustice from Japanese society.

Product Details

Release Date:	02/16/2016
UPC:	0715515167819
Original Release:	1968
Rating:	NR
Source:	Criterion Collection
Region Code:	A
Presentation:	[B&W, Wide Screen]
Sound:	[Dolby Digital Mono]
Language:	English
Time:	1:58:00
Sales rank:	12,320

Special Features

New interview with critic Tony Rayns; New high-definition digital transfer of director Nagisa Oshima's 1965 experimental short documentary Diary of Yunbogi; Trailer

Cast & Crew

Performance Credits

Yun-Do Yun	R
Kei Sato	Execution Chief
Fumio Watanabe	Education Officer
Toshiro Ishida	Chaplain
Masao Adachi	Security Officer
Mutsuhiro Toura	Doctor
Nagisa Oshima	Narrator,Narrator
Toshiro Ishido	Priest
Hosei Komatsu	District attorney
Akiko Koyama	Korean woman
Hikaru Hayashi	Composer

Technical Credits

Nagisa Oshima

Michinori Fukao

Mamoru Sasaki

Tsutomu Tamura

Nagisa Oshima	Director,Producer,Screenwriter
Masayuki Nakajima	Producer
Michinori Fukao	Screenwriter
Mamoru Sasaki	Screenwriter
Tsutomu Tamura	Screenwriter