Documentary · Japan · 1994 · 1h 17m

August Without Him

彼のいない八月が

Synopsis

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.

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