The movie
Mental handicap comes along with the apparition of a mental disease, the mental capacity of the person goes down, until it becomes a handicap, revealing a lot of difficulties in his/her social life. Inside these mental diseases, some are untreatable because of the repetition of relapses even when the highest crisis peak is over, as for Schizophrenia, and long-term hospitalizations in psychiatric hospital become inevitable. But last year, the importance of a transition and the attachment to regional institutions has been encouraged by welfare services.
In Ai Workshop where the movie occurs (Office of care assistance・B building), a lot of people suffering from mental disorder, do their best to make products that are based on Japanese traditional culture, such as Indigo dye or cord-weaving, or an even more rare occupation in Japan, working in a French restaurant. Then you would feel the fragrance of their cultural creations in ceramics and paintings, which make their everyday life even richer… The discriminations and prejudices against mental disease are still entrenched in our societies, and we can think this come from a misunderstanding and an absence of comprehension towards this handicap. This documentary movie redraws the everyday life of mental handicapped people as they are, feeling difficulties to live their everyday life, willing for you to see their grief, and the “hope” that stands at the end of the tunnel, and I hope to deepen the understanding of every of their mental disorders, and to participate to the realization of a society where they could live with no fears, by this movie.
Audience who might feel concerned
Doctors taking care of Mental Care
Nurses
Care workers who assists Mental Disordered people
Youth workers
Social Workers
People working at Welfare Center and affiliates
Teachers and students learning welfare and health sciences at University or Private Schools
Family, people in charge of Mental Disordered People
Film director Nobue Miyazaki
Narrator Naoto Oogata
Editor Hiromi Shiraishi, Department of Life Design, Toyo University
Production
Peace・Create Company
ZIP : 135-0051 Tokyo-to Koto-ku Edagawa 3-9-10-319
TEL：03-3699-4883
FAX：03-3699-4407
Special Thanks
Everyone from Ancienne Indigo Restaurant
Everyone from the Care Helper Association Ai Workshop
“Izu no Kuni” Art Village
“Bungei Shunju” Art Gallery
“Salon Déesse” Art Gallery
Atelier Shigeru Nakanishi
Junko Tanaka (Harpist)
Fumiyo Ishikawa (Soprano)
Airei Sai (Harpist)
Staff
Production：Nobue Miyazaki
Recording：Yoshiroku Kamimura
Lighting ：Sawada Minoru
Technique：Juro Satake, Koichi Nakamura, Noboru Okada
Edition：Hisao Ootaka Music：Yoichi Togawa
Office：Chizu Miyazaki
Designer：Nobuhito Miyazaki
Studio Edition
Edition：Hiroaki Honda
Audio Mixing：Kazuo Kobayashi, Hirokazu Miura
