Weird Volunteers poster

Weird Volunteers poster

Weird Volunteers

1993 46mMovie

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.

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Kimio Yabuki

Writer, Director

Top 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 Ota

Shinichiro Ota

Ichiro Yamada (voice)

Yoko Teppozuka

Fumie Nakamura (voice)

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 Sato

Masaharu Sato

Yone's Father (voice)

Yuko Nagashima

Yuko Nagashima

Yuka Inoue (voice)