Film: "Death by Hanging" (1968)
Thursday, November 6, 2025 6:30–8:30 PM
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- DescriptionLearning Beyond the Classics: Voicing Intergenerational Trauma in Postwar Korea and Japan through Contemporary Cinema
Directed by Nagisa OshimaWith Kei Sato, Fumio Watanabe, Toshio Ishido
Not Rated, 118 minutesIn Japanese with English subtitles
Genius provocateur Nagisa Oshima, an influential figure in the Japanese New Wave of the 1960s, made one of his most startling political statements with the compelling pitch-black satire Death by Hanging. In this macabre farce, a Korean man is sentenced to death in Japan but survives his execution, sending the authorities into a panic about what to do next. At once disturbing and oddly amusing, Oshima's constantly surprising film is a subversive and surreal indictment of both capital punishment and the treatment of Korean immigrants in his country.
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*Free for ND, SMC, HC, and IUSB students.
**Co-presented by the David A. Heskin and Marilou Brill Endowment for Excellence, Liu Institute for Asia and Asian Studies, Franco Family Institute for Liberal Arts and the Public Good, East Asian Languages and Cultures, Navari Family Center for Digital Scholarship/Hesburgh Libraries. - Websitehttps://events.nd.edu/events/2025/11/06/death-by-hanging-1968/