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Weird Volunteers

Weird Volunteers

Animation
January 1, 1993 (33 years ago)
46m

A film produced and paid for by Kitakyushu City's Board of Education and Council for the Promotion of Outcast Issue Awareness. The story follows two second-year junior high girls who discover an old lady collapsed outside her home in rural Japan. After assisting her back inside, the two hear the old lady's harrowing life story and discover that she is illiterate. Shocked by this, the girls vow to volunteer their time to teach the old woman to read and write each day.

Hisako Kyoda
Hisako Kyoda

Hisako Kyoda

Yone Baachan (voice)

Age 57 (now 91)

Hikaru Midorikawa
Hikaru Midorikawa

Hikaru Midorikawa

Makio Kato (voice)

Age 24 (now 58)

Hirohiko Kakegawa
Hirohiko Kakegawa

Hirohiko Kakegawa

Katsuta Sensei (voice)

Age 33 (now 66)

Megumi Urawa
Megumi Urawa

Megumi Urawa

Miyuki Kawaguchi (voice)

Age 27 (now 60)

Shinichiro Ohta
Shinichiro Ohta

Shinichiro Ohta

Ichiro Yamada (voice)

Age 21 (now 55)

Yōko Teppōzuka
YT

Yōko Teppōzuka

Fumie Nakamura (voice)

Akiko Sekine
AS

Akiko Sekine

Yone's Mother (voice)

Atsushi Kisaichi
Atsushi Kisaichi

Atsushi Kisaichi

Follower B (voice)

Age 20 (now 54)

Daisuke Sakaguchi
Daisuke Sakaguchi

Daisuke Sakaguchi

Follower A (voice)

Age 19 (now 52)

Ichiro Nagai
Ichiro Nagai

Ichiro Nagai

Yoichi Yamamoto (voice)

Age 61 (died at 82)

Masaharu Sato
Masaharu Sato

Masaharu Sato

Yone's Father (voice)

Age 46 (now 79)

Yuko Nagashima
Yuko Nagashima

Yuko Nagashima

Yuka Inoue (voice)

Age 22 (now 55)