In China, keeping human remains perfect, as per tradition, is believed to be the best offering for those who have passed away. This is why many people in poor regions or rural areas who suffer from educational inequalities, reject the idea of donating bodies to science. On the other hand, in new cities like Shenzhen, more and more people accept these donations and quite a few young people offer to donate their bodies after death. Today, the gap between those who follow the traditional idea and those who understand the modern system, is widening in China.
This film follows Gao Min, China’s leading coordinator for body donations, as he works and describes how painful it is to live, die, love, and say goodbye, through the stories of three body donations.
- Director：LI XIONG
- Japan
- 2021
- 45min.
- color
- -
- Chinese
- JPN & ENG Sub.
Japan Institute of the Moving Image
A documentary about body donation in Shenzhen, China. A woman who faces donation as a medical worker The film shows how a woman, as a medical professional, supports the donor and her family while she is still alive. The family members, who are there for the sake of medicine, are also upset when they face the death of a relative. The film depicts such a situation without any explanatory narration.
