Death by Hanging

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Death by Hanging is a 1968 Japanese New Wave film by Nagisa Ōshima that uses a stylized, Brechtian approach to critique capital punishment and ethnic discrimination in Japan.

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Predicate Object
instanceOf Japanese New Wave film
film
basedOn real-life case of a Korean-Japanese youth convicted of murder
cinematographyBy Yasuhiro Yoshioka NERFINISHED
colorProcess color
countryOfOrigin Japan
critiques institutional racism
nationalism in Japan
state violence
director Nagisa Ōshima NERFINISHED
distributor Art Theatre Guild NERFINISHED
editedBy Keiichi Uraoka NERFINISHED
featuresCharacter Education Chief
Priest
R NERFINISHED
filmFormat 35 mm
followedBy Diary of a Shinjuku Thief NERFINISHED
genre drama film
experimental film
political film
satirical film
hasHomeMediaRelease Blu-ray
DVD
hasMetacriticTopic Japanese New Wave cinema
capital punishment in film
mainTheme Zainichi Korean discrimination
critique of capital punishment
critique of ethnic discrimination in Japan
critique of the death penalty in Japan
movement Japanese New Wave NERFINISHED
narrativeDevice amnesia of the condemned man
notableFor breaking the fourth wall
didactic, theatrical staging
minimalist set design
use of dark humor
originalLanguage Japanese
partOf Nagisa Ōshima filmography
portrays Japanese legal system
capital punishment procedures
precededBy Japanese Summer: Double Suicide NERFINISHED
producer Nagisa Ōshima NERFINISHED
productionCompany Sozosha NERFINISHED
publicationDate 1968
runtimeMinutes 118
screenwriter Mamoru Sasaki NERFINISHED
Nagisa Ōshima NERFINISHED
Toshirō Ishidō NERFINISHED
settingLocation Japanese execution chamber
usesStyle Brechtian theatrical techniques

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Japanese New Wave notableFilm Death by Hanging