Weird Volunteers

  • Genre: Animation
  • Run time: 46 min
  • Premiere: 1993. January 1.

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.

Discover

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 Satô

Yone's Father (voice)

Yuko Nagashima

Yuka Inoue (voice)

Art

Jirou Kouno

Art Direction

Camera

Yoshiyuki Tamagawa

Director of Photography

Directing

Kimio Yabuki

Director

Tsutomu Yabuki

Assistant Director

Production

Shigeru Kimura

Producer

Sound

Hiroya Watanabe

Original Music Composer

Writing

Kunio Sato

Original Story

Art

Jirou Kouno

Art Direction

Camera

Yoshiyuki Tamagawa

Director of Photography

Directing

Kimio Yabuki

Director

Tsutomu Yabuki

Assistant Director

Production

Shigeru Kimura

Producer

Sound

Hiroya Watanabe

Original Music Composer

Writing

Kunio Sato

Original Story