Weird Volunteers (1993)
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.
- Released
- 1993-01-01
- Genres
- Animation
- Runtime
- 46 min
- Status
- Released
- Directed / written by
- Kimio Yabuki
Cast
- Hisako Kyoda as Yone Baachan (voice)
- Hikaru Midorikawa as Makio Kato (voice)
- Hirohiko Kakegawa as Katsuta Sensei (voice)
- Megumi Urawa as Miyuki Kawaguchi (voice)
- Shinichiro Ota as Ichiro Yamada (voice)
- Yoko Teppozuka as Fumie Nakamura (voice)
- Akiko Sekine as Yone's Mother (voice)
- Atsushi Kisaichi as Follower B (voice)
- Daisuke Sakaguchi as Follower A (voice)
- Ichiro Nagai as Yoichi Yamamoto (voice)
- Masaharu Sato as Yone's Father (voice)
- Yuko Nagashima as Yuka Inoue (voice)
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