A father loses his short-term memory as a result of a botched medical procedure, which causes him to develop Wernicke's Encephalopathy. Kore-eda chronicles his family’s fight to receive proper treatment and benefits from this devastating malpractice.
Direction
Kore-eda's patient observation finds poetry in bureaucratic hell.
Editing
Seamless weaving of home video and present-day collapse.
Director
Hirokazu Kore-eda
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
This was Kore-eda's second documentary; he would return to memory and family fictionally in 'Still Walking' and 'Shoplifters.'
The case exposed Japan's 1990s malpractice compensation system, where victims often received settlements too late to matter.
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