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The Documentary: Rulebreakers: How I disappear

Rulebreakers

19/08/2020 GMT

How I disappear

BBC World Service - The Documentary, Rulebreakers, How I disappear

The phenomenon of disappearance is rooted in Japanese culture. Meet those who disappear

The phenomenon of disappearance is rooted in Japanese culture. Meet the people who choose to disappear and the people who are left behind.

In Japan if you want to disappear from your life you can just pick up the phone and a "night moving company" will turn you into one of the country’s "johatsu" - it literally means "evaporated people". Meet those who have chosen to disappear and the people left behind.

The Documentary: Rulebreakers

We invite filmmakers more used to telling their stories in pictures to tell them in audio.

Rulebreakers -  a five-part series from BBC World Service in collaboration with Sundance Institute where we invite film-makers more used to telling their stories in pictures to tell them in audio.
In this series, hosted by the Iranian Artist and film maker Shirin Neshat we’ll meet  the imprisoned victims of more than 70 years of Danish colonial policy...in Greenland.  
There’s a young man who dreamed of  hacking the Pentagon from a laptop in his bedroom - and has had to live with the consequences ever since.
We’ve tracked down a Vietnam Veteran who’s spent 50 years mapping an America you’ve never heard of while riding freight trains.

We join Muhammad, a Palestinian Shepherd and his flock in the South Hebron hills of the West Bank who breaks all the rules of the land he walks through simply by existing.

And in Japan if you want to disappear from your life you can just pick up the phone and  a ‘Night Moving Company’ will turn you into one of the country’s ‘Johatsu,’ or literally ‘evaporated people.’ You can cease to exist.

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