Mental
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- Movie: Mental
- Japanese: 精神
- Director: Kazuhiro Soda
- Writer: Kazuhiro Soda
- Producer: Kazuhiro Soda
- Cinematographer: Kazuhiro Soda
- Release Date: October, 2008 (Pusan Int. Film Fest.)
- Runtime: 135 min.
- Language: Japanese
- Country: Japan
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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
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Film Festivals
- 2008 (13th) Pusan International Film Festival - October 2nd-10th - Wide Angle - Documentary Competition (World Premiere)
- 2009 (19th) Yubari International Fantastic Film Festival - February 26th-March 2nd - Special Program
- 2009 (9th) Nippon Connection - April 15th-19th - Nippon Digital
Awards
- "PIFF Mecenat Award" - 2008 (13th) Pusan International Film Festival - October 2nd-10th
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Categories:
- Japanese films
- 2008 Japanese films
- Films
- 2008 films
- Documentary films
- 2008 Documentary films
- J DOcumentary films
- Documentary-Health Care films
- 2008 Documentary-Health Care films
- J Documentary-Health Care films
- Illness films
- 2008 Illness films
- J Illness films
- Mental-Illness films
- 2008 Mental-Illness films
- J Mental-Illness films
