Mourou o ikiru

Mourou o ikiru

  • Overview
  • Cast
  • Crew

Status

Released

Release Date

Aug 26, 2017

Runtime

1h 31m

Genres

Documentary

Original Title

もうろうをいきる

Production Companies

SIGLO

Director

Takashi Nishihara

Description

This documentary follows the daily lives of blind and deaf people: deaf-blind people living alone on Sado Island in Niigata Prefecture; a man in Ishinomaki City, Miyagi Prefecture, who chose to live in his community despite the earthquake and tsunami; a young man in Hiroshima who wants to be independent so that he can marry while continuing to practice judo; Professor Satoshi Fukushima of the University of Tokyo's Research Center for Advanced Science and Technology who became the first deaf-blind person to teach full-time at a university in the world.