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Weird Volunteers

Weird Volunteers

Animation

46m

January 1, 1993 (32 years ago)

Overview

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.

ActorAge thenAge now
Hisako Kyoda

Hisako Kyoda

Yone Baachan (voice)

Birthday: February 22, 1935

5790
Hikaru Midorikawa

Hikaru Midorikawa

Makio Kato (voice)

Birthday: May 2, 1968

2457
Hirohiko Kakegawa

Hirohiko Kakegawa

Katsuta Sensei (voice)

Birthday: October 11, 1959

3365
Megumi Urawa

Megumi Urawa

Miyuki Kawaguchi (voice)

Birthday: November 30, 1965

2759
Shinichiro Ohta

Shinichiro Ohta

Ichiro Yamada (voice)

Birthday: March 20, 1971

2154
Yōko Teppōzuka

Yōko Teppōzuka

Fumie Nakamura (voice)

Birthday: -

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Akiko Sekine

Akiko Sekine

Yone's Mother (voice)

Birthday: -

- August 1, 2025 (null)
Atsushi Kisaichi

Atsushi Kisaichi

Follower B (voice)

Birthday: February 23, 1972

2053
Daisuke Sakaguchi

Daisuke Sakaguchi

Follower A (voice)

Birthday: October 11, 1973

1951
Ichiro Nagai

Ichiro Nagai

Yoichi Yamamoto (voice)

Birthday: May 10, 1931

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