![Issei Sagawa: Excuse Me For Living](https://i3.wp.com/image.tmdb.org/t/p/w185/wO6VKMlVHSW6t9DHUW1cGLFfbsH.jpg)
Plot
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.
Writer | Nigel Evans |
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Director | Nigel Evans & Yoshi Tezuka |
Actor | Issei Sagawa, Colin Wilson, Suguru Kubota |
Country | United Kingdom |
Production | Film4 Productions |