Dying at a Hospital

Year: 1993

Runtime: 100 mins

Language: Japanese

Director: Jun Ichikawa

Drama

Presented in a documentary style, the film follows six patients of varying ages and circumstances as they await death in separate wards of a Japanese hospital. The sterile, bleak setting is juxtaposed with the deep emotions of the patients, their families, nurses and doctors, highlighting the contrast between the confined hospital world and the life outside that they will never see again.

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