Issei Sagawa: Excuse Me For Living (1993)
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.
Directors: Nigel Evans, Yoshi Tezuka.
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Issei Sagawa as Self |
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Colin Wilson as Narrator |
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Suguru Kubota as Self |
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Tetsuo Amano as Self |
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Renée Hartevelt as Self (archive footage) |
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Bernard Marchetli as Self |
| Directing | Nigel Evans | Director |
| Directing | Yoshi Tezuka | Director |
| Writing | Nigel Evans | Writer |
| Editing | Krystyna Pobóg-Malinowska | Editor |
| Production | Nigel Evans | Producer |
