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Issei Sagawa

Issei Sagawa

Acting

Known For

Fear Itself
6.7

A horror/suspense anthology series directed by the biggest horror directors working in feature films.

Fear Itself

2008
Weather Woman
3.4

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.

Weather Woman

1996
An Aria on Gazes
5.0

Housewife Kyoko begins moonlighting at a mysterious sex club as a means of rebelling against her boring salaryman husband Akihito. The Bedroom isn’t like any normal club, though: the female hostesses all take the powerful sedative Halcion to sleep through their encounters with the male clientele.

An Aria on Gazes

1992
Soft Skin
6.4

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.

Soft Skin

1998
The Eye's Dream
1.0

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.

The Eye's Dream

2016
Caniba
5.5

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.

Caniba

2017
In The Sea of Trees
N/A

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.

In The Sea of Trees

The Cannibal That Walked Free
6.7

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.

The Cannibal That Walked Free

2007
Fear Itself: The Sacrifice
N/A

Four criminals take refuge inside an isolated, snow-covered fort, and encounter three sisters with a hidden secret who are harbouring a monster.

Fear Itself: The Sacrifice

2008
Garo Video 6: Isn't it cold?
N/A

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.

Garo Video 6: Isn't it cold?

1996
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4.0

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.

Interview with a Cannibal

2012
Issei Sagawa: Excuse Me For Living
6.0

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.

Issei Sagawa: Excuse Me For Living

1993
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N/A

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8mm, archives des Sagawa, montées

2025
I Want To Eat
N/A

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.

I Want To Eat

1994
Commensal
N/A

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.

Commensal

2017
Sagawa-Kuns Week
N/A

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.

Sagawa-Kuns Week

1995
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7.0

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Wendigo

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N/A

I Want to Eat You is a rare Japanese AV film starring Issei Sagawa, the Japanese murderer and annibal.

I Want to Eat You