Criterion spine #798
Death by Hanging
1968Directed by Nagisa ŌshimaJapan117 min
Death by Hanging (絞死刑, Kōshikei) is a 1968 Japanese drama film directed by Nagisa Ōshima. The film employs Brechtian techniques and complex treatments of guilt and consciousness, justice, and the persecution of ethnic Koreans in Japan.
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