SCREENING
Death by Hanging
Friday, Oct 18, 2024 at 6:45 pm
Location: Bartos Screening Room
Part of Directors' Fortnight: 1969
Dir. Nagisa Oshima. 1968, 118 mins. Japan. 35mm. In Japanese with English subtitles. A documentary-like opening introduces a death chamber where an execution is about to take place. Inexplicably, the man to be executed, an ethnic Korean known only as R, survives his hanging but loses his memory. The officials who witness the hanging debate how to proceed, as the law could be interpreted as forbidding execution of an individual who does not recognize his crime and its punishment. They decide that they must persuade R to accept guilt by reminding him of his crimes—at this point the film moves into a highly theatricalized film-within-a-film structure.
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