Movie
Weird Volunteers
Released: January 1, 1993 (1993)
Runtime: 46 minutes
Genres: 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.
Main Cast (Top 10 billed, oldest first)
- Ichiro Nagai as Yoichi Yamamoto (voice)
Age at release: 61
- Hisako Kyoda as Yone Baachan (voice)
Age at release: 57
- Hirohiko Kakegawa as Katsuta Sensei (voice)
Age at release: 33
- Megumi Urawa as Miyuki Kawaguchi (voice)
Age at release: 27
- Hikaru Midorikawa as Makio Kato (voice)
Age at release: 24
- Shinichiro Ohta as Ichiro Yamada (voice)
Age at release: 21
- Atsushi Kisaichi as Follower B (voice)
Age at release: 20
- Daisuke Sakaguchi as Follower A (voice)
Age at release: 19
- Yōko Teppōzuka as Fumie Nakamura (voice)
Age at release: Unknown
- Akiko Sekine as Yone's Mother (voice)
Age at release: Unknown
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- Masaharu Sato as Yone's Father (voice)
Age at release: 46
- Yuko Nagashima as Yuka Inoue (voice)
Age at release: 22