Singing in the Dark: Erasing the Disabled of Okinawa

2021 · Movie

Dir. Yoshikazu Hara

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Incarcerating the mentally ill in sheds and other private enclosures was permitted under Japanese law and continued in Okinawa until 1972. The film leads us to hear the unheard song of victims of this cruel system of social isolation.