46 minutes
1/1/1993
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.
Hisako Kyoda
as Yone Baachan (voice)
Hikaru Midorikawa
as Makio Kato (voice)
Hirohiko Kakegawa
as Katsuta Sensei (voice)
Megumi Urawa
as Miyuki Kawaguchi (voice)
Shinichiro Ohta
as Ichiro Yamada (voice)
Yōko Teppōzuka
as Fumie Nakamura (voice)
Akiko Sekine
as Yone's Mother (voice)
Atsushi Kisaichi
as Follower B (voice)
Daisuke Sakaguchi
as Follower A (voice)
Ichiro Nagai
as Yoichi Yamamoto (voice)
Masaharu Satô
as Yone's Father (voice)
Yuko Nagashima
as Yuka Inoue (voice)