Weird Volunteers
46 mins
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.
Yōko Teppōzuka
Fumie Nakamura (voice)
Akiko Sekine
Yone's Mother (voice)
Kunio Sato
Original Story
Shigeru Kimura
Producer
Yoshiyuki Tamagawa
Director of Photography
Tsutomu Yabuki
Assistant Director
Toshitsugu Saida
Animation Director
Jirou Kouno
Art Direction
Hiroya Watanabe
Original Music Composer
Toshitsugu Saida
Character Designer