Weird Volunteers (1993)

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.

Cast (12)CrewGenresDetailsReleasesMediaAwards

Hisako Kyoda

Yone Baachan (voice)

Hikaru Midorikawa

Makio Kato (voice)

Hirohiko Kakegawa

Katsuta Sensei (voice)

Megumi Urawa

Miyuki Kawaguchi (voice)

Shinichiro Ota

Ichiro Yamada (voice)

Y

Yōko Teppōzuka

Fumie Nakamura (voice)

A

Akiko Sekine

Yone's Mother (voice)

Atsushi Kisaichi

Follower B (voice)

Daisuke Sakaguchi

Follower A (voice)

Ichiro Nagai

Yoichi Yamamoto (voice)

Masaharu Sato

Yone's Father (voice)

Yuko Nagashima

Yuka Inoue (voice)

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