Nursing students strip naked to learn empathy—230 minutes of vulnerability and unexpected tenderness.
The Rapport Long-term Care and Welfare School boasts an overwhelming pass rate for the common exam at graduation by having students take subjects and conducting more practical training. The most important point of this course is to "experience the shame of the care recipient". No matter how embarrassing it may be, both men and women will be naked and practice nursing care with the spirit of "rapport = trust". I think it's a great class.
Direction
Kazama observes without exploitation—remarkable restraint given the premise.
Writing
The 'rapport = trust' framing evolves from absurd to genuinely moving.
Director
Nyu-kaji- Kazama
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Japan's elder care crisis created this school; the film quietly critiques who bears the emotional labor of dignity.
Director Nyu-kaji- Kazama reportedly spent two years embedded before filming—none of the 'students' knew which takes would be used.
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