Mental

• Movies
• 2008-06-13
• JA
• Released
• 2h 15m
• Documentary

• 6.8
• 6
• Trailer

Production

Laboratory X

Storyline

MENTAL is a feature-length documentary that observes the complex world of an outpatient mental health clinic in Japan, interwoven with patients, doctors, staff, volunteers, and home-helpers, in cinema- verite style. The film breaks a major taboo against discussing mental illness prevalent in Japanese society, and captures the candid lives of people coping with suicidal tendencies, poverty, a sense of shame, apprehension, and fear of society.