Issei Sagawa (* 1949) is a Japanese woman murderer, who used its admittingness, in order to publish several special books and novels.

Sagawa killed 1981 the Netherlands student Hartevelt. Both studied English literature to the Sorbonne in Paris. He shot it, after he had asked her to speak him a poem. Then he ate parts of its corpse.

The act inspired the volume The Rolling Stones to the Song Too Much Blood. The first publication came in the album Undercover from the year 1983.

Sagawas arrest was only from short duration, since its father was Akira Sagawa very wealthy and influential. Issei Sagawa was delivered to Japan and after 15 months from the hospital for spirit patient to dismiss. Due to the act it arrived in its homeland Japan at a national celebrity, among other things by its regretless and "triumphierendes" occurrence.

In the year 1983 Sagawa described its experiences in the book "into the Fog". In the year 1997 it wrote the book Shonen A concerning one in Kobe transacts series murderers. Until today it writes regularly for a Japanese magazine and some successful novels. In addition Sagawa in the erotischen film Shisenjiyou NO Aria (The Bedroom) arose.

Quotations

"Finally I which eating A beautiful white woman, and thought emergency-hung which so delicious!"

"The public has larva ME the of godfather OF cannibalism, and I to happy about that. I wants always look RK the world through the eyes OF A cannibal."

Related links

• "Act OF Obsession" (English)

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