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Mental

Plot: 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
Release Date: Friday, June 13 2008
16 years ago
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Portrait of Kazuhiro SodaKazuhiro Soda
Kazuhiro Soda was
38 in Mental
as 'Director, Editor, Producer, Director of Photography'
Fri, Jun 12 1970
Portrait of Kiyoko KashiwagiKiyoko Kashiwagi
Kiyoko Kashiwagi was
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as 'Producer'
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