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In the award-winning documentary Children Full of Life, a fourth-grade class in a primary school in Kanazawa, northwest of Tokyo, learn lessons about compassion from their homeroom teacher, Toshiro Kanamori. He instructs each to write their true inner feelings in a letter, and read it aloud in front of the class. By sharing their lives, the children begin to realize the importance of caring for their classmates.
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No Comments A heartfelt photo-essay about one man’s father.
When a stoic government official in post-war Japan learns he has terminal cancer, he realizes he has squandered his life on meaningless red tape and has no close family or friendships to lean on.
This cautionary tale was directed by Akira Kurosawa in 1952.
What would you do if you discovered you only had 6 months to live and you discovered that your life up until now has been meaningless?
Trailer for SOLACE: Wisdom of the Dying
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Jun 28, 2010 
