Issei Sagawa: Excuse Me For Living
1993, English. Directed by Yoshi Tezuka & Nigel Evans.
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.
- Runtime
- 0h 50m
- Post-credits
- None listed
- Language
- English
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- Released
- 21 November 1993
- Country
- United Kingdom
- Written by
- Nigel Evans
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Issei Sagawa: Excuse Me For Living isn’t streaming on any OTT platform in India yet; it released on 21 November 1993. (Checked 13 November 2026.)
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Who directed Issei Sagawa: Excuse Me For Living?
Issei Sagawa: Excuse Me For Living (1993) was directed by Yoshi Tezuka and Nigel Evans and stars Issei Sagawa, Colin Wilson, Suguru Kubota.