Caniba

Format:

Video

Contributor:

Castaing-Taylor, Lucien, director, producer. .

Paravel, Véréna, 1971- director, producer. .

Sagawa, Issei, 1949-2022, on-screen participant. .

Grasshopper Film (Firm), publisher, film distributor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Sagawa, Issei, 1949-2022.

Sagawa, Issei.

Brothers--Japan.

Brothers.

Cannibalism--Psychological aspects.

Cannibalism.

Older men--Psychology.

Older men.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (97 min.)

Place of Publication:

New York, N.Y. Grasshopper Film 2017

Summary:

"Caniba reflects on the discomfiting significance of cannibalistic desire in human existence through the prism of one Japanese man, Issei Sagawa, and his mysterious relationship with his brother, Jun Sagawa. As a 32-year-old student at the Sorbonne in Paris, Issei Sagawa was arrested on June 13, 1981 when spotted emptying two bloody suitcases containing the remains of his Dutch classmate, Renée Hartevelt. Two days earlier, Mr. Sagawa had killed Hartevelt and began eating her. Declared legally insane, he returned to Japan. He has been a free man ever since. Ostracized from society, he has made his living off his crime by writing novels, drawing manga, appearing in innumerable documentaries and sexploitation films in which he reenacts his crime, and even becoming a food critic"--Container.

Participant:

Issei Sagawa, Jun Sagawa, Satomi Yoko.

Credits:

Camera and editing, Véréna Paravel, Lucien Castaing-Taylor.

Notes:

Title is part of the Projectr EDU collection

Description based on online resource; title from title screen

OCLC:

1303725024

Access Restriction:

Restricted for use by site license