The 1977 documentary so disturbing it made lawmakers sweat.
Do humans have the right to judge and kill other humans? This program includes a history of capital punishment around the world through documentary footage and commentary. The electric chair, firing squad, hanging, poison gas, beating to death, slow execution, crotch-splitting, iron maiden, guillotine, execution by running, and beheading... It features a military execution in a South American country, obtained from a former prison officer. It also includes footage of the reality of life in Japanese prisons, death row inmates facing death, the parents of death row inmates, the families of their victims, and the gallows.
Editing
Relentless montage designed to provoke, not educate.
Production
Illicit military footage obtained through prison insider connections.
Director
Kan Mukai
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
This emerged during Japan's 1970s 'ero guro' boom, when censorship loopholes allowed graphic content if framed as educational.
Director Kan Mukai was primarily a pink film director; this 'documentary' financed his more explicit work.
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