August Without Him 1994

August Without Him (1994) is a Documentary film from Japan in the lookmovie catalog, running 1h 17m. Directed by Hirokazu Kore-eda, it features Hirata Yukata. Viewers rate it 5.2/10 from 11 votes. 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.