Weird Volunteers

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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.

Cast

Yone Baachan (voice)

Hikaru Midorikawa

Makio Kato (voice)

Hirohiko Kakegawa

Katsuta Sensei (voice)

Miyuki Kawaguchi (voice)

Shinichiro Ohta

Ichiro Yamada (voice)

Yōko Teppōzuka

Fumie Nakamura (voice)

Yone's Mother (voice)

Atsushi Kisaichi

Follower B (voice)

Daisuke Sakaguchi

Follower A (voice)

Yoichi Yamamoto (voice)

Yone's Father (voice)

Yuka Inoue (voice)

Crew

Director, Writer

Yoshiyuki Tamagawa

Director of Photography

Assistant Director

Toshitsugu Saida

Animation Director, Character Designer

Hiroya Watanabe

Original Music Composer