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Dying at a Hospital

Dying at a Hospital

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Status

Released

Release Date

Jul 24, 1993

Runtime

1h 40m

Genres

Drama

User Score

62%

Original Title

病院で死ぬということ

Production Companies

Kindai Eiga Kyokai, OPT Communications, TV Tokyo

Director

Jun Ichikawa

Description

Filmed in a documentary style, six patients in six wards of different ages and circumstances await death at a hospital in Japan. The sterile and dismal environment is contrasted against the emotional being of the patients, their visitors and relatives and the outside world, which they will never again survey.