Weird Volunteers

46min

Animation

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

Hisako Kyoda

Hisako Kyoda

Yone Baachan (voice)
Hikaru Midorikawa

Hikaru Midorikawa

Makio Kato (voice)
Hirohiko Kakegawa

Hirohiko Kakegawa

Katsuta Sensei (voice)
Megumi Urawa

Megumi Urawa

Miyuki Kawaguchi (voice)
Shinichiro Ohta

Shinichiro Ohta

Ichiro Yamada (voice)
Yōko Teppōzuka

Yōko Teppōzuka

Fumie Nakamura (voice)
Akiko Sekine

Akiko Sekine

Yone's Mother (voice)
Atsushi Kisaichi

Atsushi Kisaichi

Follower B (voice)
Daisuke Sakaguchi

Daisuke Sakaguchi

Follower A (voice)
Ichiro Nagai

Ichiro Nagai

Yoichi Yamamoto (voice)
Masaharu Satô

Masaharu Satô

Yone's Father (voice)
Yuko Nagashima

Yuko Nagashima

Yuka Inoue (voice)

Release date

1st Jan 1993

Status

Released

Spoken languages

日本語