Death by Hanging is currently streaming on The Criterion Channel

Death by Hanging (1968)118 minComedy, Crime, DramaRating 69/100

Genius provocateur Nagisa Oshima (In the Realm of the Senses), an influential figure in the Japanese New Wave of the 1960s, made one of his most startling political statements with the compelling pitch-black satire Death by Hanging. In this macabre farce, a Korean man is sentenced to death in Japan but survives his execution, sending the authorities into a panic about what to do next.

Cast: Yun Yun-Do, Kei Satō, Fumio Watanabe, Toshirō Ishidō, Masao Adachi, Rokkō Toura, Hōsei Komatsu

Director: Nagisa Ōshima