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Hometown Stories: Season 7

7x05 Finding Poetry in Cancer

  • 2018-02-24T15:00:00Z on NHK
  • 30m
  • Japan
  • Japanese, English
  • Documentary
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.
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