Plot summary
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.
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Canniba is made by two artists/anthropologists, Véréna Paravel
Intimate and eerie
There's been made many documentaries about this guy.. but this is the only one that includes his younger brother which is why I watched it.
It's a very intimate movie.. like nothing I've ever seen before.. 90% of the movie is just close ups of his face.. like REALLY close.. like you feel like you have to move away from the screen.. the rest shows the life of his brother.. who has his own creepy obsessions with hurting his upper arm with things like knifes and barb wire for sexual pleasure..
I'm still in shock after watching it knowing that this is real life.. a man really killed and ate a poor innocent woman decades ago which he didn't serve any prison time for and became a little celebrity in Japan after what he did, and still to this day lives in an apartment in Japan being taken care of by his brother.
It's hard to watch.. but Definitely worth a watch if you're intrigued about his brothers story.. however if you want to learn more about Issei Sagawa himself there's been made documentaries about him that you can easily find on yt.




