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Caniba

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Interviews with famous Japanese cannibal Issei Sagawa.

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Critics Consensus

In terms of form as well as content, Caniba is decidedly not for everyone, but its story - and the questions it poses - are hard to ignore.

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A.A. Dowd AV Club 10/21/2018
C+
"I can't stomach this anymore," Jun eventually remarks, as his brother pages through his illustrated confession. That makes all of us. Go to Full Review Michael Nordine IndieWire 10/19/2018
C+
Caniba features no explanatory text or outside voices of any kind. Go to Full Review Glenn Kenny New York Times 10/18/2018
I consider Sagawa repellent, and the movie an exercise in intellectualized scab-picking. Go to Full Review Panos Kotzathanasis Asian Movie Pulse 12/02/2019
Evidently, "Caniba" is not a movie for everyone, both for its theme and its presentation. However, it is also a unique experience, a truly original movie that manages to shed light into the lowest depths of human nature Go to Full Review Mattie Lucas From the Front Row 06/03/2019
3.5/4
Rather than sensationalizing their gruesome subject, they use it to hold a mirror up to the audience, and the disarming act of introspection should make us all a little nauseous. Go to Full Review Marshall Shaffer Vague Visages 01/24/2019
It's puzzling to reconcile how Castaing-Taylor and Paravel simultaneously operate on such a high level ... while also strapping themselves into an aesthetic chastity belt. Go to Full Review Read all reviews

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desmond b @RT31839822 05/15/2022 Canniba is made by two artists/anthropologists, Véréna Paravel and Lucien Castaing-Taylor from Harvard's Sensory Ethnography Lab. Unlike the more standard documentaries which deal in psychoanalytic speculations and dramatic narration, this one is an extreme close-up of the cannibal himself, in his declining years. The film seems to ask us to consider our own fetishes and asks whether we are repulsed by Sagawa's acts, or by the abjection in ourselves which he forces us to confront. My full review is at https://thecannibalguy.com/2022/05/15/issei-sagawa-caniba/ See more Read all reviews
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Verena Paravel

Director

Lucien Castaing-Taylor

Director

Lucien Castaing-Taylor

Producer

Verena Paravel

Producer

Lucien Castaing-Taylor

Cinematographer

Verena Paravel

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Movie Info

Synopsis Interviews with famous Japanese cannibal Issei Sagawa.
Director
Verena Paravel, Lucien Castaing-Taylor
Producer
Lucien Castaing-Taylor, Verena Paravel
Distributor
Grasshopper Film
Production Co
Norte Productions
Genre
Documentary
Original Language
Japanese
Release Date (Theaters)
Oct 19, 2018, Limited
Release Date (Streaming)
Jan 12, 2020
Runtime
1h 30m
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