August Without Him

5.4

77m

1994

Documentary

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.

Starring

Hirata Yukata

Directed By

Hirokazu Kore-eda