13 Season
259 Episode
Hometown Stories - Season 7 Episode 5 Finding Poetry in Cancer (2024)
The shock of the first diagnosis. Fear of death. Anxiety and concern about friends and family. Cancer patients experience a range of complex emotions. Now, a Japanese hospital is helping them transform their feelings into senryu, a Japanese form of short poetry. A man expresses a lifetime of gratitude toward his wife. A woman uses humor to fight back against a serious illness. In this program, cancer patients find solace in just 17 syllables.
- Country : Japan
- Genre : Documentary
- Studio : NHK, NHK WORLD-JAPAN
- Director :
- Cast : lae astra
