August without him
/
彼のいない八月が
/
Kare no inai hachigatsu ga
director:
Hirokazu Kore-eda
actor:
Hirata Yukata
genre:
Documentary
language:
Japanese
length: 1h 17m
release date: 1994-08-30
IMDb: tt0236374
彼のいない八月が
overview
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.