Shijin no Shougai
English title: A Poet's Life
Japanese title: 詩人の生涯
Alternative titles: Shijin no Shogai, The Life of a Poet
Type: Movie
Source: Original
Episodes: 1
Status: Finished Airing
Aired: Jan 1, 1974
Duration: 19 min
Rating: PG - Children
Genres: Award Winning, Drama, Fantasy
Themes: Psychological

A worker is fired from a factory for demanding a wage increase. His mother, worn thin by poverty, is caught in her own spinning wheel. Then a strange storm buries the town in snow, freezing rich and poor alike. Another short film by Kihachiro Kawamoto

Winner of the 1974 Oofuji Noburou Award.