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.
Plot summary
In 1981, young Issei Sagawa of Japan murdered a Dutch student in Paris and ate part of his body. Declared mentally ill, he did not face a normal trial, and after spending two years in a French clinic, he returned to Japan. There he wrote a book, published a manga about his crime and even appeared in pornography. In an attempt to unravel the dark motives that led him to cannibalism, the anthropologists and film-makers Véréna Paravel and Lucien Castaing-Taylor perform in 'Caniba', their third full-length film, an atypical and sensory portrait of Sagawa, who more than thirty-five years after the events in Paris, lives suffering a paralysis that keeps him partially immobilized.
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KINORÉVOLUTION! After Leviathan (2012),Paravel and Castaing-Taylor continue breaking new cinematic ground. Like some pioneering nightmarish invention, this is a whole next level of *pure* filmmaking. A miracle indeed. Brutal geography of the face, as if AKA Serial Killer (1969) was transformed by Philippe Grandrieux.