Weird Volunteers 1993
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Weird Volunteers
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.
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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Full Cast & Crew
... Yone Baachan (voice)
... Makio Kato (voice)
... Katsuta Sensei (voice)
MU
Megumi Urawa... Miyuki Kawaguchi (voice)
... Ichiro Yamada (voice)
... Fumie Nakamura (voice)
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Release Date:
Jan 01, 1993 (Japan)
Run Time:
46`
MMPA Rating:
Original Language:
Japanese
Production Countries:
Japan
Status:
Released
Cast & Crew of
Weird Volunteers - Weird Volunteers
Directors & Credit Writers
... Assistant Director
... Director
Cast
... Yone Baachan (voice)
... Makio Kato (voice)
... Katsuta Sensei (voice)
MU
Megumi Urawa... Miyuki Kawaguchi (voice)
... Ichiro Yamada (voice)
... Fumie Nakamura (voice)
AS
Akiko Sekine... Yone's Mother (voice)
... Follower B (voice)
... Follower A (voice)
... Yoichi Yamamoto (voice)
... Yone's Father (voice)
... Yuka Inoue (voice)
Produced By
... Producer
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