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Director Nagisa Ōshima
Writers Tsutomu Tamura, Nagisa Ōshima, Michinori Fukao
After a condemned man survives a hanging, officials scramble to decide what the law and their consciences demand next. As they search for a way forward, the situation turns into a tense, darkly comic confrontation with justice, identity, and the meaning of punishment.