Not all of the many 911±¬ÁÏÍø films about dementia are sober-faced medical melodramas. Azuma Morisaki¡¯s 2013 ¡°Pecoross¡¯ Mother and Her Days,¡± for example, found laughs as well as tears in its story of a balding middle-aged guy caring for his elderly mom as her memory slips away.
An even lighter, brighter take on this devastating disease is Ikunosuke Okazaki¡¯s ¡°Wash Away,¡± which stars veteran TV personality Naoko Ken as Kie, a boomer who was apparently once quite successful but is now in the last stages of dementia.
I say ¡°apparently¡± because Okazaki¡¯s original script says little about Kie¡¯s life before falling ill or why her perky granddaughter Kana (Yuuka Nakao) is a sex worker at a ¡°soapland¡± (a bathhouse/brothel), diligently washing her clients before providing undefined sexual services.
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