Issei Sagawa: Excuse Me For Living
Issei Sagawa: Excuse Me For Living
Watch issei sagawa: excuse me for living FMovies. 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.
- Genre: Documentary
- Country: United Kingdom
- Director: Yoshi Tezuka
- Cast: Issei Sagawa, Colin Wilson, Suguru Kubota, Tetsuo Amano, Renée Hartevelt, Bernard Marchetli,
