抄録
At the beginning of the year 1968, Oshima Nagisa released a provocative film which was titled Koushikei (Death by Hanging). In this era of political upheaval, Oshima took up the controversial relation between Japan and Korea, by staging a fiction based on the real incident that happened in 1950s. In the process of making this film, Oshima interrogated the violence of the State realized in the form of death penalty, especially to the people displaced from the realm of sovereignty. On the rhetorical level, he tried to address directly to the audience to make this film not only a piece of work defined as an “Art”, but also as an “event” which occurred in the specific space and time frame. In this act of enunciation situated in the historical context of the late 1960s Japan, Oshima questioned the axiomatic nature of the State and provoked the audience to act as a political subject in the 1960s historical situation.
