A documentary set in the “National Sanatorium Tama Zenseien“, a facility for people with Hansen’s disease that is located in Higashi-murayama, Tokyo. The crew of the film interviewed former Hansen’s disease patients who were forcibly admitted by the government’s life isolation policy. One of these people was Kimie Yamauchi, who entered Tama Zenseien at the age of 21 in 1951. While there, she met and married Sada, another person with Hansen’s disease. However, in order for Hansen’s disease patients to get married in the hospital, her husband had to undergo “sterilization surgery”, a policy at the time. Through meeting them, the documentary goes into detail about a number of inhumane measures taken in the facility such as surgery and abortion, and asks why discrimination and prejudice are repeated. (Source: genkinahito) Edit Translation
- English
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