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Issei Sagawa: Excuse Me For Living
November 21 1993 (about 31 years ago)Rating
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- Directors: Nigel Evans, Yoshi Tezuka
- Genre: Documentary
- Runtime: 50 m
- Country: United Kingdom
- Company: Film4 Productions
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.
