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Without Memory

Original title: Kioku ga ushinawareta toki (Without Memory)
Year: 1996
Running time: 84 min.
Country: Japan
Director: Hirokazu Koreeda
Screenwriter: Hirokazu Koreeda
Cast: Documentary
Music: Yasuhiro Kasamatsu
Cinematography: Shigeru Honda
Producer: NHK, TV Man Union
Genre: Documentary | Disability. Medical
Synopsis: A father loses his short-term memory as the result of a botched medical procedure which causes him to develop Wernicke's Encephalopathy. Koreeda chronicles his family’s fight to receive proper treatment and benefits from this devastating malpractice. Without Memory is an unabashed protest against the government and its disregard for health care. However, the film is also rich with thematic concerns, namely memory and loss, which infuse his later fiction films.

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Without Memory

1996

Hirokazu Koreeda