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Availability: Out Of Print - This title is currently unavailable and/or out of print. Other versions may still be available; and will be listed on the right side of your screen. Director: Kumai Kei Producer: Yamaguchi Tomozo Released: 1999 [Japan] Genre: Drama Keywords:  Illness || Japan / Japanese || Love || Physically Challenged / Deformed

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Plot:	Mistakenly diagnosed as having leprosy, a young woman, Miki decides to remain in a sanatorium and help patients.
Overview:	A moving drama inspired in the novel The Woman I abandoned by Shusaku Endo that tells the story of a girl who, on discovering she has leprosy, is looking for a reason to live. After spending a long time confined in a sanatorium, they can see the diagnosis was wrong. Even so, she decides to stay on and help those with whom she lived during her suffering. With her sincere attitude and kindness, the persons around her rediscover the happiness of love and the pleasure of living.In a moving report, the film broaches the difficulties and the discrimination faced by persons diagnosed as having leprosy. And it shows that in spite of the law for leprosy prevention - that obliged confining persons with the disease - and abolished in 1996, the past of thousands of victims that suffered restrictions that ignored human rights cannot be forgotten.Even after the abolition of the law, discrimination and prejudice are still firmly established in modern society. And it is this that this touching drama denounces.
Cast:	Miki Sakai  ||  Atsuro Watabe  ||  Okada Masumi  ||  Kyoko Kishida  ||  Keijyu Kobayashi (Click any actor to search for more of their movies!)
Running Time:	114 mins. (approx.)
Languages:	Japanese
Subtitles:	ENGLISH, Chinese (Traditional), Chinese (Simplified)
Distributor:	Universe  [A Hong Kong-Based Distributor]
Rating:	IIA - "Some Content May Be Inappropriate For Children" (roughly equal to an MPPA rating of "PG-13") Films rated Category IIA may contain mild violence such as martial arts, mild nudity that is not sexually oriented, mild explicit language and some mild adult situations.
Features:	Letterboxed