"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 realise the importance
of caring for their classmates."