Caniba - 2017

There is no comfortable answer. That is the film’s unforgiving, radical achievement.

★★★★☆ (4/5) – A masterwork of unsettling form; a litmus test for the ethics of documentary practice. caniba 2017

The film does not reconstruct the murder, interview criminologists, or debate his guilt. Instead, it confines itself almost entirely to the claustrophobic apartment Sagawa shared with his older brother, Jun, who serves as his primary caregiver. Using extreme close-ups, intimate framing, and a fragmented soundscape, the film documents mundane activities—eating, sleeping, watching television, discussing erotica—intercut with Sagawa’s calm, detailed recollections of his crime. There is no comfortable answer