Dying at a Hospital

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.

Directed by Jun Ichikawa

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Cast

Ittoku Kishibe

Dr. Yamaoka

Masayuki Shionoya

Toshio Noguchi

Akira Yamanouchi

Kenji Kawamura

Reiko Nanao

Haruyo Ikeda

Yutaka Matsushige

Shinji

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