Don't Lose Heart

Don't Lose Heart

2013
★★★★☆ 8.0/10
⏱️ 128 minutes
📅 Released
🌐 JA
Drama
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.

Cast

Kaoru Yachigusa
Kaoru Yachigusa
Toyo Shibata
Tetsuya Takeda
Tetsuya Takeda
Kenichi Shibata
Ran Ito
Ran Ito
Shizuko
Rei Dan
Rei Dan
Toyo Shibata (young adult)
Mana Ashida
Mana Ashida
Toyo Shibata (child)
Mizuho Suzuki
Mizuho Suzuki
Sadakichi Shibata

Crew

Director
Yoshihiro Fukagawa
Writer
Yoshihiro Fukagawa
Producer
Naoto Asaoka, Kazunari Hashiguchi, Naoko Yoshida

Production

AOI Pro., Shochiku

Keywords

biography