Issei Sagawa: Excuse Me For Living (1993)
1993 · 0h 50m · Documentary
Genres: Documentary
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.
Director: Yoshi Tezuka, Nigel Evans
Writers: Nigel Evans
Editor: Krystyna Pobóg-Malinowska
Cast
Issei Sagawa as SelfColin Wilson as NarratorSuguru Kubota as SelfTetsuo Amano as SelfRenée Hartevelt as Self (archive footage)Bernard Marchetli as SelfMore like this
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