August Without Him (movie)
彼のいない八月が- User score: 5.6
- Production country: Japan
- Producer: Hirokazu Kore-eda
- Production companies: TV Man Union
- Genre: Documentary
- Release date: 8/30/1994
- Run time: 77 min.
Movie 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.