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Status
Released
Release
1993
Runtime
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.
12 Cast Members
Hisako Kyoda
Yone Baachan (voice)
Hikaru Midorikawa
Makio Kato (voice)
Hirohiko Kakegawa
Katsuta Sensei (voice)
Megumi Urawa
Miyuki Kawaguchi (voice)
Shinichiro Ohta
Ichiro Yamada (voice)
Yōko Teppōzuka
Fumie Nakamura (voice)
Akiko Sekine
Yone's Mother (voice)
Atsushi Kisaichi
Follower B (voice)
Daisuke Sakaguchi
Follower A (voice)
Ichiro Nagai
Yoichi Yamamoto (voice)
Masaharu Sato
Yone's Father (voice)
Yuko Nagashima
Yuka Inoue (voice)
