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August Without Him
JAPAN · 1994

August Without Him

Hirokazu Kore-eda
HIV/AIDS LGBTQ+ activism Japanese society mortality public vs private life
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Synopsis

Hirata Yukata became the first man in Japan to publicly acknowledge that he had contracted HIV through gay sex. Filmed over a series of months, the documentary contrasts his public life as an outspoken figure on the lecture circuit with his personal descent into illness and death.

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