Issei Sagawa: Excuse Me For Living

Synopsis

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.

Main Cast

Issei Sagawa

Self

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Colin Wilson

Narrator

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Suguru Kubota

Self

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Tetsuo Amano

Self

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Renée Hartevelt

Self (archive footage)

Age : N/A | Popularity : 0%

Bernard Marchetli

Self

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Crew

Department	Role	Name
Writing	Writer	Nigel Evans
Directing	Director	Nigel Evans Yoshi Tezuka
Production	Producer	Nigel Evans
Editing	Editor	Krystyna Pobóg-Malinowska
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