Sending Off
SENDING OFF follows the patients of Dr.Kaoru KONTA and her team of nurses as they provide hospice care to patients in their homes in rural Japan.A special focus is directed at the deepening relationships the patients form with their families as they reach the end of their lives.
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SENDING OFF follows the patients of Dr. Kaoru KONTA and her team of nurses as they provide hospice care to patients in their homes in rural Japan. A special focus is directed at the deepening relationships the patients form with their families as they reach the end of their lives. Sometimes difficult to watch, the film challenges us to think about how we live our own lives and how we would like to die.
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- Release date
- May 31, 2019
- Runtime
- 1h 19m
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- Language
- Japanese
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