Mental
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- Documentary
Overview
MENTAL is a feature-length documentary that observes the complex world of an outpatient mental health clinic in Japan, interwoven with patients, doctors, staff, volunteers, and home-helpers, in cinema- verite style. The film breaks a major taboo against discussing mental illness prevalent in Japanese society, and captures the candid lives of people coping with suicidal tendencies, poverty, a sense of shame, apprehension, and fear of society.
Keywords
- mental health
- observational documentary
Details
- Status
- Released
- Release date
- June 13, 2008
- Original language
- Japanese
- Spoken languages
- Japanese
- Countries
- Japan
- Production
- Laboratory X
- Director
- Kazuhiro Soda
- Producer
- Kiyoko Kashiwagi,Kazuhiro Soda
- Cinematography
- Kazuhiro Soda
- Budget
- Not recorded
- Revenue
- Not recorded
- IMDb
- tt1295064