Hanging Sentence

This film (drama)Also known as絞死刑，is aJapanProducerwomen sex，At1968Released in year 。The dialogue language isJapanese，Current Douban rating8.3(For reference only)。

The original material of the film's story is about a Korean resident in Japan, Lee Jinyu, who, under racial discrimination, descends into a state of mental emptiness to the point of perversion. Not only does he kill two young women, but he also writes about his experiences as a novel to participate in a newspaper writing competition, and even calls the newspaper calmly after the murders. After being sentenced to death, a Korean female journalist in Japan corresponds with him, hoping to awaken his national consciousness. The film is based on this real event, but the plot almost transcends the story itself. The film begins with the sudden execution of Mr. R without explaining the reason. After the execution, Mr. R surprisingly does not die but loses his memory and falls into a coma. The executioners decide to first restore his awareness of his crimes before carrying out the second execution. Thus, the group plays the roles of people around Mr. R on the spot, trying to awaken R's memory, even playing the role of R's Minister of Education and killing a girl who suddenly appears. The victim girl awakens as a middle-aged woman dressed in Korean traditional clothing, whom R calls "sister" and praises for R's national consciousness while criticizing Japanese imperialism. The second half of the film depicts R's imagined world. The executioners sit around holding a banquet, with R and the woman lying among them, and their conversation reflects the correspondence between Lee Jinyu and the Korean female journalist. R regains his memory but believes he has not committed any crimes, leading the prosecutor to decide to release him. At the moment R opens the door, he seems unable to endure the sunlight outside. The prosecutor criticizes his delusions of innocence and places the concept of the nation above R's freedom of imagination. In the end, Mr. R returns to stand on the gallows. This is Nagisa Oshima's pioneering work in low-budget narrative films—the 10 million yen film.