CiNEMERCATOR - Nagisa Ōshima DEATH BY HANGING 1968
Filmlover,
4 cinephiles:
Merthe Voorhoeve, Andreas van Riet,
Maaike Hasselaar & Elisabeth van Vliet,
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CiNEMERCATOR
doors open 19:30
start 20:00
ticket 3 Euro
nxt edition
3-9
'If we try executing him again, we’d be breaking the law.'
Released in 1968, during a time of political unrest and studentprotests in Japan, Nagisa Ōshima’s Death by Hanging is a bold and unsettling film that challenges the viewer from the very beginning.
The story begins with a korean man, living in Japan and referred to only as 'R'. R is sentenced to death by hanging for a crime he has committed. But something strange happens: the execution fails and R survives, with no memory of who he is or what he has done. This unexpected survival throws the prison officials into crisis; if R cannot remember his guilt, can they still justify killing him?
What follows is a surreal, often absurd attempt by the officials to reconstruct R.’s identity- and guilt- through theatrical reenactments of his life and crime.
Part courtroom drama, part political satire, part philosophical inquiry; what begins as a dark farce, slowly turns into something more disturbing; a complex meditation on memory, punishment, racial otherness and the machinery of the state.
This film is chosen by Andreas
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