Interview with a Cannibal

06/29/2012

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0hr 33min

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Documentary

Issei Sagawa murdered an innocent woman and spent three days eating her flesh. Due to loopholes in the law, Issei is a free man to this day.

STORY

Issei Sagawa murdered an innocent woman and spent three days eating her flesh. Due to loopholes in the law, Issei is a free man to this day. Sagawa was declared insane and unfit for trial and was institutionalized in Paris. His incarceration was to be short, however, as the French public soon grew weary of their hard-earned francs going to support this evil woman-eater, and Issei was promptly deported. Herein followed a bizarre and seemingly too convenient set of legal loopholes and psychiatric reports that led doctors in Japan declaring him "sane, but evil." On August 12, 1986, Sagawa checked himself out of Tokyo's Matsuzawa Psychiatric hospital, and has been a free man ever since.

CAST & CREW

    Cast

  • Issei Sagawa

    Director

  • Santiago Stelley

INFORMATION

    Production Companies

  • Visual Voodoo

    Production Countries

  • United Kingdom

LANGUAGES

  • French
  • Japanese