Death by Hanging
A darkly satirical, formally inventive examination of state violence and institutional absurdity that uses the impossible survival of an execution to interrogate justice, identity, and power.
A Korean man is sentenced to death in Japan but somehow survives his execution, sending the authorities into a panic about what to do next.
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