

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.
August Without Him was directed by Hirokazu Kore-eda.
August Without Him runs for 1h 17min, and was released in 1994.
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