Mental

Name: Mental
Genre: Documentary
Released: 2008-06-13
Duration: 135 min
Rating: 6.8

精神

6.8 (6)2008-06-132h 15m

Documentary

Overview

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.