'Hikikomori: A Deafening Silence' Documentary Interviews Japan's Social Recluses

Having long fascinated the rest of the world with its peculiarity, the uniquely Japanese social ill of young male social recluses, or "hikikomori," gets a thorough and charged examination in filmmakers Dorothée Lorang and David Beautru's feature documentary, Hikikomori: A Deafening Silence. Spawned from a volatile mixture of the intersecting spheres of a shaky job market, a collectivist society, a stagnant economy, as well as various cultural factors and social pressures, hikikomori now number ...