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NHK Documentary: Season 2017

2017x12 What You Taught Me About Happiness

  • 2017-04-30T14:10:00Z on NHK
  • 1h
  • Japan
  • English, Japanese
  • Documentary
The book "The Reason I Jump" introduced readers around the world, for the first time, to the true emotions of a person with autism. Author Naoki Higashida is severely autistic, but can "talk" with the help of an alphabet board or a computer. 2 years after he was profiled in the NHK Documentary What You Taught Me About My Son (2014), the director, who is now suffering from cancer, re-visits Naoki, asking him a crucial question: "How can people who are suffering find happiness?" It's a remarkable story about life from the words of a young autistic author.
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