Movie: Don't Lose Heart (literal title)
Romaji: Kujike Naide
Japanese: くじけないで
Director: Yoshihiro Fukagawa
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Release Date: November 16, 2013
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Language: Japanese
Country: Japan
Plot
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 - Toyo Shibata
Tetsuya Takeda - Kenichi (Toyo Shibata's son)
Ran Ito - Shizuko (Kenichi's wife)
Rei Dan - Toyo Shibata (young)
Mana Ashida - Toyo Shibata (child)
Mizuho Suzuki - Sadakichi (Toyo Shibata's husband)
Yusuke Kamiji - Doctor Kamijo
Pierre Taki
Ariei Umefune
Ayaka Onishi