I’ve wanted to see Mike Mills’ documentary Does Your Soul Have a Cold? ever since I first read about it circa 2007. Unfortunately, it was never properly released. Imagine my surprise then, to find a stack of copies at Family. (I was told Mills “bootlegged” them himself and brought them in. Rad!) Of course I had to buy one.

Does Your Soul Have a Cold? chronicles five people taking antidepressants in Tokyo shortly after the influx of American pharmaceutical companies’ aggressive ad campaigns, and the subsequent cultural shift in the way depression was talked about and treated in Japan. Mike Mills talks about his work in an interview at SXSW:

On a similar note, the recent New York Times article “The Americanization of Mental Illness” is FASCINATING.