Hikikomori, a deafening silence
Director Dorothée Lorang and David Beautru Dorothée Lorang and David Beautru
Countries France
Duration 50 min
Synopsis
There is between 600 thousand and a million Japanese youths who stay hidden away in their bedroom. Sometimes cut off from all kind of social interaction for several years. These youths, named hikikomori are renouned in Japonnise society as being the ‘lost generation’. This film meets some of them in a rare center set up to help them resocialise and tries to understand the reasoning.
There is between 600 thousand and a million Japanese youths who stay hidden away in their bedroom. Sometimes cut off from all kind of social interaction for several years. These youths, named hikikomori are renouned in Japonnise society as being the ‘lost generation’. This film meets some of them in a rare center set up to help them resocialise and tries to understand the reasoning.