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Death by Hanging

Kôshikei

Art Theatre Guild (1968)

NR (Not Rated)

715515167819

7.5

3,796

comedy | crime | drama | foreign

Japan | Japanese | Color | 01:57

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A Korean man is sentenced to death by hanging, but he survives the execution. For the following two hours, his executioners try to work out how to handle the situation in this black farce.

Cast View all

	Kei Sato	Prison warden
	Do-yun Yu	R
	Fumio Watanabe	Education Officer
	Hosei Komatsu	District attorney
	Rokko Toura	Doctor
	Toshirô Ishidô	Priest
	Masao Adachi	Chief of guards
	Masao Matsuda	Secretary of the D.A.
	Takashi Ueno	Guard
	Takao Usui
	Daiji Ozeki
	Masayuki Hoshi
	Shizuo Satô	Guard
	Nagisa Oshima	Narrator
	Akiko Terayima
	Keiko Sakurai
	Yuki Osaka
	Kurumi Suzuki
	Akiko Koyama	The sister

Crew View all

Director	Nagisa Oshima
Writer	Michinori Fukao, Mamoru Sasaki, Tsutomu Tamura, Nagisa Oshima
Producer	Masayuki Nakajima, Takuji Yamaguchi, Nagisa Oshima
Musician	Hikaru Hayashi
Photography	Yasuhiro Yoshioka

Trailer

Edition details

Edition	Criterion Blu-Ray Edition
Nr Discs	1
Screen Ratios	Widescreen (1.85:1)
Audio Tracks	SUB [English]
Regions	Region A