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.

• Hiroya WatanabeOriginal Music Composer
• Kimio YabukiWriter
• Kimio YabukiDirector

• Hisako KyodaYone Baachan (voice)
• Hikaru MidorikawaMakio Kato (voice)
• Hirohiko KakegawaKatsuta Sensei (voice)
• Megumi UrawaMiyuki Kawaguchi (voice)
• Shinichiro OhtaIchiro Yamada (voice)
• Yōko TeppōzukaFumie Nakamura (voice)
• Akiko SekineYone's Mother (voice)
• Atsushi KisaichiFollower B (voice)
• Daisuke SakaguchiFollower A (voice)
• Ichiro NagaiYoichi Yamamoto (voice)
• Masaharu SatoYone's Father (voice)
• Yuko NagashimaYuka Inoue (voice)