"In the company of my many Guevara, I will still make, in the future, audacious cinematographic productions and achievements. The Hanging is one of the milestones of this path." Nagisa Oshima
New HD restoration
A Korean resident in Japan, R was convicted of murder and sentenced to death by hanging. But on the day of its execution, R loses its memory. Can we therefore legally hang a man who is no longer aware of his actions? It is therefore necessary to remind him of them…
Adapted from a news item that occurred ten years earlier, The Hanging is one of the peaks of Oshima's cinematographic art, taking advantage of the minimalism of its device to draw up an indictment against the death penalty, between film-theorem and theater of the absurd. – Mathieu Capel
HANGING
(1968 – B&W – 118 mins)
new HD restoration
SUPPLEMENTS
. PREFACE BY MATHIEU CAPEL
. TRAILER
Released March 11, 2015
