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August Without Him

August Without Him

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Status

Released

Release Date

Aug 30, 1994

Runtime

1h 17m

Genres

Documentary

User Score

56%

Original Title

彼のいない八月が

Production Companies

TV Man Union

Director

Hirokazu Kore-eda

Description

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.