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WHAT SHOULD WE HAVE DONE?

DOUSUREBAYOKATTAKA?

By Tomoaki FUJINO

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Documentary - Completed 2024

My elder sister started showing symptoms of schizophrenia around 1983.
One day, when I returned home, the front door was padlocked.
A record of 20 years of family chaos.

- Year of production
- 2024
- Genres
- Documentary
- Countries
- JAPAN
- Languages
- JAPANESE
- Duration
- 101 mn
- Director(s)
- Tomoaki FUJINO
- Synopsis
- Around 1983, my 24-year-old sister, who was attending medical school, began showing symptoms of schizophrenia. But neither she nor her parents, who are both doctors and researchers, were aware of this, so she did not see a psychiatrist. Her younger brother, who is 8 years younger than her, has doubts about his parents' judgment, but he can't resolve this and leaves home to find a job. After graduating, his older sister became a recluse, and her parents set up a research lab in their home. From 2001, the younger brother started video recording his family when he returned home and continued conversations with his older sister and parents. The parents then locked the front door with a chain and padlock, locking their daughter inside.