へんてこな ボランティア · 1993

Weird Volunteers

Kimio Yabuki · 46 min · Japan

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.

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Production companies

Toei Animation

Cast

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  Hisako Kyoda

  Yone Baachan (voice)

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  Hikaru Midorikawa

  Makio Kato (voice)

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  Hirohiko Kakegawa

  Katsuta Sensei (voice)

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  Megumi Urawa

  Miyuki Kawaguchi (voice)

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  Shinichiro Ohta

  Ichiro Yamada (voice)

• Yōko Teppōzuka

  Fumie Nakamura (voice)

• Akiko Sekine

  Yone's Mother (voice)

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  Atsushi Kisaichi

  Follower B (voice)