Issei Sagawa: Excuse Me For Living 1993
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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.
- Released: 1993-11-21
- Runtime: 50 minutes
- Genre: Documentary
- Stars: Issei Sagawa, Colin Wilson, Suguru Kubota, Tetsuo Amano, Renée Hartevelt
- Director: Yoshi Tezuka, Nigel Evans, Nigel Evans, Krystyna Pobóg-Malinowska, Nigel Evans
