A film festival on the theme of intractable diseases and serious life-threatening diseases was held in Tokyo on the 14th.
This film festival, held in Chiyoda Ward, Tokyo, was organized by Nara Medical University, which is involved in the treatment of intractable diseases, and produced seven short films in Japan in order to deepen understanding of the reality of intractable diseases and the feelings of patients. was screened.
Among them, in the work "Secret of Magician", a man suffering from "ulcerative colitis", an intractable disease that causes repeated severe abdominal pain and diarrhea, tries not to let his girlfriend know that he frequently goes to the bathroom. Therefore, the story of pretending not to go to the toilet using the magic that is good at it is drawn.
In addition, a work depicting the anxiety and conflict of a woman who noticed a lump in her breast until she was diagnosed with breast cancer and undergoing surgery, and a documentary work depicting the daily life and thoughts of a man undergoing dialysis due to diabetes were screened. The audience was watching.
A 64-year-old woman in Tokyo said, ``There are things you can understand about the reality of illness and things you can't understand by looking at it, but I think that making it into a movie has made it easier to understand.'