JAPAN, Our Homeland

The 31st year of the Showa Era (1956) marked the tenth year since Japan's defeat in World War II. It was when Japan took its first step out of post-war poverty to rejoin the international community. In old downtown Tokyo, a teacher and her students try to pass down Doyo (Japanese traditional children's songs) as the root of Japanese cultural identity to the future generations.

• Akio NishizawaDirector
• Akio NishizawaScreenplay

• Naoya SekineAkira Yanagizawa (voice)
• Subaru KimuraGonji Abe (voice)
• Maika KawaguchiShizu Miyanaga (voice)
• Sayaka HanamuraRieko Sakamoto (voice)
• Eri OsonoeYayoi Tajima (voice)
• Tetsuya KannamiTeru Yoshimura (voice)
• Kurumi HontaKimiyo Arima (voice)
• Seigo KuwabaraYoshio Kawabata (voice)
• Hikari YonoFukuko Yanagizawa (mother) (voice)
• Kanon NagashimaReiko Yanagizawa (voice)
• Takaya HashiGenji Yanagizawa (voice)
• Yasuo IwataPreside Ikeno (voice)