Issei Sagawa
Also Known As: Pang, Kazumasa Sagawa
Biography: Biography not available
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Kobe, Hyogo Prefecture, Japan
Adult: No
Birthday: April 26, 1949
Age: 76 years old
Gender: Male
Deathday: November 24, 2022
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I Want to Eat You

Overview: I Want to Eat You is a rare Japanese AV film starring Issei Sagawa, the Japanese murderer and annibal.
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Original Language: en
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Weather Woman

Overview: Keiko, a young, newly hired weather woman, is eager to give her channel's flagging ratings a boost. She decides a panty shot might do the trick, so during her forecast she lifts her skirt, thereby capturing the attention and the hearts of viewers. Keiko's stunt creates such a stir of excitement over the weather report that viewers begin religiously turning in to see what she'll do next. However, this showboating routine earns the ire of Kaori, the beautiful and ambitious daughter of JTV's chairman. Jealous of her success and aching to take over the weather report, Kaori is willing to do just about anything to get what she wants.
Genres: Comedy Fantasy Romance Science Fiction
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1996-08-16
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I Want To Eat

Overview: Famed Cannibal Issei Sagawa's tale of events in which he killed and ate a French woman. Screenplay is written by Issei Sagawa himself as well as he features as lead actor.
Genres: Horror
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1994-01-01
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Sagawa-Kuns Week

Overview: Variety of documentary-style works of Issei Sagawa featuring comedy duo Bakushō Mondai. Including a segment where reporters have Issei Sagawa (famous Japanese Cannibal) do different Olympic sports.
Genres: Comedy Horror Documentary
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1995-01-01
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Garo Video 6: Isn't it cold?

Overview: Kameichiro is a 40-year-old virgin who is ridiculed by the people around him. He goes the wild encounters to try to get laid, inspired by the wild culture of garo comics and made by one of the biggest artists in the movement Takashi Nemoto. With cameo of cannibal Issei Sagawa.
Genres: Comedy Horror
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1996-01-01
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The Cannibal That Walked Free

Overview: The Cannibal that Walked Free (also known as Cannibal Superstar ) is a British documentary produced by Visual Voodoo for Channel Five which explores - through direct access - the bizarre psychology and twisted celebrity fame that surrounds Japanese cannibal Issei Sagawa.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2007-01-01
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The Bedroom

Overview: Erotic drama set in an underground Tokyo club called The Bedroom, where the female clientele are drugged into a trance-like state and are subjected to different styles of bizarre, fetishistic sex by the male clientele.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1992-09-12
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The Eye's Dream

Overview: Maya is a photographer. She takes photos related to the eyeball. Kunio is a neurosurgeon and an independent documentary film director. He is interested on making a documentary about Maya. A mysterious eyeball collector watches for Maya's own eyeballs.
Genres: Thriller Horror
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2016-07-30
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In The Sea of Trees

Overview: A documentary by associate producer and sound recordist Nao Nakazawa, in which Issei Sagawa is interviewed by Sato Hisayasu in a suicide forest at the foot of mount Fuji.
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Original Language: ja
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Interview with a Cannibal

Overview: 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.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2012-06-29
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Soft Skin

Overview: Minako, a Tokyo housewife, is depressed that everyone has an active life outside the home except her. Taking her inspiration from TV reports of a hitch-hiking chainsaw murderer, Minako decides to spice up her life by finding a young lover and running off with him by faking her kidnapping. While her family frets and worries, Minako has a wonderful time. Eventually, though, she decides it's time to go back to her family. Her lover, however, isn't ready for the fun to end, and Minako's fake kidnapping soon becomes all too real.
Genres: Thriller
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1998-01-31
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Wendigo

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Original Language: ja
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Issei Sagawa: Excuse Me For Living

Overview: 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.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1993-11-21
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Commensal

Overview: A two-channel installation utilizing both digital video and 16mm film, Commensal focuses on the controversial figure of Issei Sagawa, who gained notoriety in 1981 when, as a graduate student in Paris, he murdered a fellow student and engaged in acts of cannibalism. After his release from a mental institution, Sagawa returned to Japan, and later appeared in innumerable documentaries and sexploitation films. In contrast to earlier journalistic documentaries on Sagawa, the film suspends moral judgment and explores a realm that eludes classification as either “documentary” or “pure fiction,” to instead chart the ambiguous territory between crime, fantasy, and social realities, between an individual and the economy of his public persona.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2017-06-10
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Caniba

Overview: Caniba is a fresco about flesh and desire. It reflects on the discomfiting significance of cannibalism in human existence through the prism of one Japanese man, Issei Sagawa, and his mysterious relationship with his brother, Jun Sagawa.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2017-09-01
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8mm, archives des Sagawa, montées

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Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2025-05-20
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