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In the Fog A story of love and cannibalism

Issei Sagawa

On June 12th, 1981, Issei Sagawa, a 32-year-old Japanese student in literature, invited a Dutch classmate to his appartement located in a posh district of Paris, under the pretense of working on a German poem for a school assignment. Obsessed with cannibalism since childhood, Sagawa shot the young g...

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My Favorite Murder with Karen Kilgariff and Georgia Hardstark

It was a biography based on interviews with Issei Sagawa and detailed his crimes and life. It became a best-seller in Japan after its publication, and it was said that his story became an anti-hero phenomenon in the country.

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Japanese writer, uh, Inuhiko Yamota, hopefully interviews him, uh, about these crimes and about his life. And, uh, all of them, they have a bunch of conversations, talk a bunch, and eventually they tu...

— Episode: 116 - Robot Grandma

Episode: 116 - Robot Grandma

It was a biography based on interviews with Issei Sagawa and detailed his crimes and life. It became a best-seller in Japan after its publication, and it was said that his story became an anti-hero phenomenon in the country.

"

Japanese writer, uh, Inuhiko Yamota, hopefully interviews him, uh, about these crimes and about his life. And, uh, all of them, they have a bunch of conversations, talk a bunch, and eventually they turn, um, all of that into a biography about Saga, uh, Saga, called in the fog.

And when that biography comes out in Japan, it fucking sells out nationwide.

He writes after in the fog, which was his first book. He writes 18 more books about himself, cannibalism, his murder, all of it.

Episode: 116 - Robot Grandma

It was a biography about Issei Sagawa, written after numerous conversations with him whilst he was in the Matsuzawa hospital. It became a bestseller in Japan soon after its release.

"

Japanese writer, uh, Inuhiko Yamota, hopefully interviews him, uh, about these crimes and about his life. And, uh, all of them, they have a bunch of conversations, talk a bunch, and eventually they turn, um, all of that into a biography about Saga, uh, Saga, called in the fog.

And when that biography comes out in Japan, it fucking sells out nationwide.

He writes after in the fog, which was his first book. He writes 18 more books about himself, cannibalism, his murder, all of it.

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