MENTAL

SEISHIN

By Kazuhiro SODA

ASIAN SHADOWS - CHINESE SHADOWS - as SALES All rights, World

Documentary - Completed 2008

MENTAL aims to questioning about the invisible curtain, the conventional boundary that separates the mentally ill and healthy people, simply by observing.

    • Year of production
    • 2008
    • Genres
    • Documentary
    • Countries
    • JAPAN, USA
    • Languages
    • JAPANESE
    • Duration
    • 135 mn
    • Director(s)
    • Kazuhiro SODA
    • Producer(s)
    • Kazuhiro SODA (Laboratory X, Inc.), Kiyoko KASHIWAGI (Laboratory X, Inc.)
    • Synopsis
    • 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-verité 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.