Toshio Kashiwagi

  • Kazuhiro Sôda – Seishin AKA Mental (2008)

    2001-2010DocumentaryJapanKazuhiro Sôda

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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.Read More »

  • Kazuhiro Sôda – Peace (2010)

    2001-2010DocumentaryJapanKazuhiro SodaPolitics

    What is peace? What is coexistence? And what are the basis for them? PEACE is a visual-essay-like observational documentary, which contemplates these questions by observing the daily lives of people and cats in Okayama city, Japan, where life and death, acceptance and rejection are intermingled.Read More »

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