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Information
- A.k.a.
- Death by Hanging
- Year
- 1968
- Runtime
- 117 min.
- Director
- Nagisa Ôshima
- Genres
- Crime, Drama, Comedy
- Rating *
- 7.6
- Votes *
- 1,462
- Checks
- 856
- Favs
- 103
- Dislikes
- 14
- Favs/checks
- 12.0% (1:8)
- Favs/dislikes
- 7:1
Top comments
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demagogo
Assuming there are some people that enter this page to get an idea what to expect of a movie, that there are no comments yet, and that the movie's in 9 lists with an 7.7 score in IMDb, I guess I'll say something about it.
This movie is weird. Your expectations based on the title and the first minutes get crashed almost immediately when the unexpected takes place. The following two hours are an argumental development of what happened at first, so you don't have a three-acts narrative, nor a non-linear, nor a five- acts. More than anything, it's just "unorderly" but linear, even though every segment can be followed without making unnecessary efforts just for aesthetics sake.
I've been reading some reviews in IMDb and one guy compares it with Kafka, Citizen Kane, or Annie Hall. Oddly enough, if there's a movie I thought about in order to give an idea on how the movie it's carried on, it was Orson Welle's The Trial.
Finally, I really appreciate that the director is capable of making a political statement without being sorry for that or making them obscure. The movie is explicit in that department, and that's good. 7 years 9 months ago -
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Login to see which of your friends have seen this movie!In 8 official lists
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This movie ranks #33 in Amos Vogel's Film as a Subversive Art
Amos Vogel's Film as a S…
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This movie ranks #127 in Tom Vick's Asian Cinema: A Field Guide
Tom Vick's Asian Cinema:…
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This movie ranks #201 in Harvard's Suggested Film Viewing: Narrative Films
Harvard's Suggested Film…
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This movie ranks #233 in 366 Weird Movies
366 Weird Movies
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This movie ranks #375 in Halliwell's Top 1000: The Ultimate Movie Countdown
Halliwell's Top 1000: Th…
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This movie ranks #566 in Jonathan Rosenbaum's Essential Cinema
Jonathan Rosenbaum's Ess…
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This movie ranks #889 in TSPDT's 1,000 Greatest Films: 1001-2500
TSPDT's 1,000 Greatest F…
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This movie ranks #955 in The Criterion Collection
The Criterion Collection
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