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Don't Lose Heart

2013
Directed byYoshihiro Fukagawa
2h 8m

Depicts the life of best-selling Japanese poet Toyo Shibata. Toyo Shibata first began writing poems at the age of 92 and published her first collection of poems "Kujikenaide" (″Don't lose heart″) in 2009, which sold over 1.5 million copies.

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Kaoru YachigusaToyo ShibataTetsuya TakedaKenichi ShibataRan Ito
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Shizuko
Rei DanToyo Shibata (young adult)
Mana AshidaToyo Shibata (child)
Mizuho SuzukiSadakichi Shibata
Yusuke KamijiDoctor Kamijo
Haru KurokiShizuko (young adult)
Pierre Taki
Ariei Umefune
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GENRES
Drama
STATUSReleased
RATING
8.0

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