Desc: Byôin de shinu to iu koto: Directed by Jun Ichikawa. With Ittoku Kishibe, Masayuki Shionoya, Akira Yamanouchi, Reiko Nanao. Filmed in a documentary style six patients in six wards of different ages and circumstances await death at a hospital in Japan. The sterile and dismal environment is contrasted against the emotional being of the patients, their visitors and relatives and the outside world, which they will never again survey.