Movie: The Cannibal That Walked Free

Top 10 Billed Cast

Issei Sagawa
佐川一政

Himself

Olivier Foll
Olivier Foll

Himself

Jacques Poinas
Jacques Poinas

Himself

Philippe Lemaire
Philippe Lemaire

Himself

Patrick Duval
Patrick Duval

Himself

Jean-Pierre van Geirt
Jean-Pierre van Geirt

Himself

Daniel Zagury
Daniel Zagury

Himself

Barak Kushner
Barak Kushner

Himself

Dave Spector
Dave Spector

Himself

Susumu Oda
Susumu Oda

Himself

  • HomePage

  • Overview

    The Cannibal that Walked Free (also known as Cannibal Superstar ) is a British documentary produced by Visual Voodoo for Channel Five which explores - through direct access - the bizarre psychology and twisted celebrity fame that surrounds Japanese cannibal Issei Sagawa.

  • Release Date

    2007-11-12

  • Average

    6.8

  • Rating:

    3.4 starts
  • Tagline

  • Genres

  • Languages:

    FrançaisEnglish日本語
  • Keywords

Recommendations Movies

Six A.M.
85%

Six A.M.(en)

1923-01-01

After drinking all night, Monty and his friend try to get home, but it turns out to be not easy. The next day, Monty tries to win the heart of a theater actress.

Spring
70%

Spring(ru)

2010-04-23

This is a story about a city guy Nikolai, who will have to go instead of his friend on a rural business trip. A series of funny events, meetings and the beauty of the Yakut village encourage Nikolai to make an important decision in his life…

In the Turmoil of the Russian Revolution
78%

In the Turmoil of the Russian Revolution(fr)

2017-10-28

2017 marks the centenary of one of the most significant events of the 20th century - the Russian Revolution. Using the private journals of Pierre Gilliard, tutor to the Romanov children, this film is an intimate and eye-opening account of the Russian Imperial family in those days of turmoil. How did they get through their days? How did they perceive their lives as their world crumbled around them?

Angelique and the Sultan
64%

Angelique and the Sultan(fr)

1968-03-13

Angélique is in a North African Muslim kingdom where she is now part of the Sultan's harem. She refuses to be bedded as her captors try to beat sense into her. She finally decides to escape with the help of two Christian prisoners.

Little Grey Fergie: Country Fun!
53%

Little Grey Fergie: Country Fun!(no)

2016-06-23

The adventures of a Little Grey Fergie tractor with a magical spark plug which makes him a living being, and his “family” and the people working on their farm.

Gadgetman
90%

Gadgetman(en)

1996-01-01

When an inventor's son learns that his father has been kidnapped, he searches for a clever contraption that can save his dad’s life.

The Mould
58%

The Mould(sr)

2020-03-17

Under the pressure of the international community, the Serbian Government establishes a Mixed Commission, and conferred to it the examination of facts in the affair "missing babies" that has lasted for several decades.

1:11
64%

1:11(pl)

2021-09-20

Tomek is a young doctor specialised in obstetrics sonography. He lives lost among the women around him. One night he is abruptly woken up by a dead call from his father. This seemingly unimportant event gradually gains significance.

Tricks of Love
50%

Tricks of Love(en)

2008-12-04

When a desperate fashion photographer bets his rival he can turn an ordinary girl into a super-model, he has no idea of the consequences -- especially when he falls for her.

Firestar: First Contact
45%

Firestar: First Contact(en)

1991-01-01

Six Children and One Grandfather
57%

Six Children and One Grandfather(en)

2019-03-01

David McDoll is a selfish and wealthy man living an enviable lifestyle in his large villa and collecting fancy cars. However, his life is about to be changed forever when he inherits his six grandchildren. His glamorous lifestyle quickly becomes complete chaos. But he will learn a valuable lesson that teaches him about placing family first and discovering a newfound appreciation for life.

Help! Help!
43%

Help! Help!(en)

1912-04-10

A send-up of Griffith's THE LONELY VILLA and other movies of that sort, such as THE GIRLS AND DADDY, THE LONEDALE OPERATOR and many others, as the heroine, thinking that burglars are trying to break into her home phones her husband at the office, who rushes home.... well, who tries to rush home in his chauffeur-driven automobile.

Alexandria, Private
71%

Alexandria, Private(ar)

2005-06-20

When a woman is accused of a high-profile murder, a young lawyer takes on her defense, only to uncover a web of secrets, deceit, and hidden motives. As he digs deeper, the case becomes more personal—and far more dangerous than he ever expected.

In This Valley of Respite, My Last Breath...
50%

In This Valley of Respite, My Last Breath...(en)

2017-10-24

In a valley starved of light. Weariness. Fatigue. An offering of shelter; a surrender of breath...

The Love Potion
50%

The Love Potion(da)

1916-10-16

The pharmacist Peter Pille and Colonel Sejrsberg's beautiful niece, Inger, are in love. Unfortunately, the Colonel is against the idea of an engagement and generally detests men who court young girls. Peter Pille finds out that the Colonel's negative attitude is due to jealousy and envy, because he himself has never really had luck with the ladies. Maybe a homemade love potion will do the trick? (stumfilm.dk)

The Revenger
47%

The Revenger(en)

1989-01-01

When saxophonist Mike Teller's brother Mackie is killed before being able to deliver $500,000 to mob boss Jack Fisher, Mike is arrested as an accomplice and thrown into prison for five years. Upon his release, he finds Fisher has kidnapped his wife, Lisa, believing Mike has the stolen drug money. With the help of Mackie's old Vietnam war buddy, Harry Crawford, Mike and Harry rescue Lisa, but now have to escape the clutches of the mob in Harry's remote cabin. Will Jack Fisher retrieve his money or will Mike get his revenge?

Similar Movies

Caniba
56%

Caniba(ja)

2017-09-01

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.

Serial Killers: The Real Life Hannibal Lecters
59%

Serial Killers: The Real Life Hannibal Lecters(en)

2001-01-01

This documentary examines a selection of real life serial killers and compares them to the fictional Hannibal Lecter.

Faces of Death
45%

Faces of Death(en)

1978-11-10

A collection of death scenes, ranging from TV-material to home-made super-8 movies. The common factor is death by some means.

The Last Confession of Alexander Pearce
58%

The Last Confession of Alexander Pearce(en)

2009-01-29

Eight men escape from the most isolated prison on earth. Only one man survives and the story he recounts shocks the British establishment to the core. This story is the last confession of Alexander Pearce.

Banned Alive! The Rise and Fall of Italian Cannibal Movies
40%

Banned Alive! The Rise and Fall of Italian Cannibal Movies(en)

2016-03-01

2 1/2 hour-documentary on the rise and fall of one of the most controversial Italian genres every created. Starting with Deep River Savages arriving to the infamous Cannibal Ferox.

Dead of Winter: The Donner Party
0%

Dead of Winter: The Donner Party(en)

2015-11-27

What starts out as a voyage to the West in pursuit of the American Dream quickly turns deadly for the Donner party after a series of bad decisions and severe weather. Trapped in the Sierra Nevada Mountains, this group of nearly 80 settlers fell prey to sub-zero temperatures, torrential rainfalls, extreme heat, and ten-foot snow drifts. Punishing storms trapped the party with nearly no food or shelter for 5 months in the Sierra Nevada mountains. Many died, some succumbed to cannibalism to survive, and others delved deeply into their faith while waiting to be rescued. “The Donner Party” explores this exciting journey through a hybrid of first-person narration, remarkable reenactments, expert interviews, CGI, and archival materials.

The Jeffrey Dahmer Files
56%

The Jeffrey Dahmer Files(en)

2013-02-15

An experimental documentary film that uses archival footage, interviews, and fictionalised scenarios to tell the story of the people around Jeffrey Dahmer during the summer of his arrest in 1991.

The Cannibal Next Door
67%

The Cannibal Next Door(en)

2023-04-26

The shocking story of one of the world's most notorious cannibals, Armin Meiwes, who found a willing victim online who agreed to be dismembered and eaten for sexual pleasure. Told by those closest to the case, the documentary discusses how the killer and the victim's lives led to their fatal night together

Echoes from a Sombre Empire
71%

Echoes from a Sombre Empire(de)

1990-11-28

Documentary examining Bokassa's rule in the Central African Republic using the testimony of witnesses and visits to key sites.

New Guinea: Island of Cannibals
48%

New Guinea: Island of Cannibals(it)

1974-01-01

Mondo-style documentary in which a movie crew travels to newly independent Papua New Guinea to capture the customs and culture of the cannibal natives. Prepare yourself for death rituals, war costumery, crude tattoos, animal killings, and cannibalism.

Interview with a Cannibal
40%

Interview with a Cannibal(en)

2012-06-29

Issei Sagawa murdered an innocent woman and spent three days eating her flesh. Due to loopholes in the law, Issei is a free man to this day. Sagawa was declared insane and unfit for trial and was institutionalized in Paris. His incarceration was to be short, however, as the French public soon grew weary of their hard-earned francs going to support this evil woman-eater, and Issei was promptly deported. Herein followed a bizarre and seemingly too convenient set of legal loopholes and psychiatric reports that led doctors in Japan declaring him "sane, but evil." On August 12, 1986, Sagawa checked himself out of Tokyo's Matsuzawa Psychiatric hospital, and has been a free man ever since.

Triste Trópico
50%

Triste Trópico(pt)

1974-01-01

In this "fake documentary", a doctor returns to Brazil after his studies in Paris. Setting out to practice Medicine, he becomes an indigenous messiah and, in time, a cannibal.

Cannibals tomorrow
0%

Cannibals tomorrow(it)

1983-06-16

It is a documentary, which submits to the public the most dramatic, subhuman situations in which men find themselves living in all corners of the world. From India to Brazil, from the African nations of the Sahel to Bolivia, the camera ruthlessly shows the images of a humanity marginalized in a thousand ways by the so-called"civil consortium".

Cannibal Island
0%

Cannibal Island(en)

1956-02-01

Though the release date says 1956, this film consists mostly of footage from a 1931 documentary called "Gow the Killer." It was the first sound film to deal with cannibalism, as it documented the social life and customs of primitive tribes that in fact did engage in cannibalism.

Hollow Jungle
0%

Hollow Jungle(en)

2019-06-29

Somewhere between Sri Lanka and the island of New Guinea, in the upper reaches of the Amazonia jungle, there is rumoured to be a lost tribe of cannibals. Assembled out of Italo cannibal mondo movies, Hollow Jungle documents their rituals, sourcing their power in narrative repetitions and analogies, before structurally locating them in the prurient pathologies of certain pseudo-ethnographies.

Pururambo
70%

Pururambo(en)

2005-12-09

Globe-trotting Slovakian filmmaker Pavol Barabas explores Earth's biggest tropical island, New Guinea, in this breathtaking tour of a culture wholly unfamiliar with modern civilization and with no previous contact with white people. Along the way, Barabas finds people living high in trees under conditions roughly similar to those of the Stone Age. The film won the Culture Prize at the Kendal Mountain Film Festival.

Deodato vs Lenzi
100%

Deodato vs Lenzi(it)

2024-12-02

An interview with the Italian directors Ruggero Deodato and Umberto Lenzi at the the "Joe D'Amato Horrorfest" in Livorno, 2004.

The Queen of the Cannibals
70%

The Queen of the Cannibals(en)

2024-12-02

An interview with actress Me Me Lai on her work in the three Italian cannibal-themed movies "The Man from Deep River", "Last Cannibal World" and "Eaten Alive", as well as on her participation in Lars von Trier's "Element of Crime".

Eating With Cannibals
100%

Eating With Cannibals(en)

2011-04-03

National Geographic joins author and explorer Piers Gibbon as he investigates one of mankind's ultimate taboos: cannibalism. Gibbon treks into the rain forest of Papua New Guinea to find tribe members who ate human flesh. And, meets the members of the once-feared Biami tribe to witness their ritual techniques.

Do girls eat? And if they do, what is it?
100%

Do girls eat? And if they do, what is it?(es)

2024-10-04

Alberto is the head of a production company always looking for scandalous stories to cover. One day he comes across a viral TikTok of Paula, a cannibal activist who defends her lifestyle on social media. After getting in touch with her, the "Alberto Te Lo Cuenta" crew will follow the girl and her partner to show a day in their lives.