Weird Volunteers
へんてこな ボランティア
Release: 1993-01-01
·Runtime: 46m
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.
Production Countries
Japan
Production Companies
Toei Animation
Cast
Shinichiro Ohta
as Ichiro Yamada (voice)
Masaharu Sato
as Yone's Father (voice)
Hisako Kyoda
as Yone Baachan (voice)
Hirohiko Kakegawa
as Katsuta Sensei (voice)
Megumi Urawa
as Miyuki Kawaguchi (voice)
Atsushi Kisaichi
as Follower B (voice)
Daisuke Sakaguchi
as Follower A (voice)
Ichiro Nagai
as Yoichi Yamamoto (voice)
Yuko Nagashima
as Yuka Inoue (voice)
Hikaru Midorikawa
as Makio Kato (voice)
