Kazuo Hara, who shocked the Japanese establishment with The Emperor s Naked Army Marches On and Goodbye CP, focuses on controversial writer Mitsuharu Inoue in this forceful documentary. Originally intending to spend years ... more »on the project, Hara soon realized that Inoue was dying from cancer and adjusted his plan. The result is a moving film that captures the essence of the contentious writer s life--and the significance of his death. In his writings and in his personal biography, Inoue played along the border between truth and fiction, an element that Hara exposes by sifting through the layers of reality and fabrication surrounding the old man s life. A DEDICATED LIFE is not only a tribute to a courageous man, but it also reveals Hara s own dedication to outsiders, mavericks, and nonconformists who rebel against the limits of normal society.« less