JAPAN, Our Homeland (2007)
Original title: ふるさと-Japan
JAPAN, Our Homeland is a 2007 Japanese-language animation movie directed by Akio Nishizawa, with a running time of 1h 37m. It stars Naoya Sekine, Subaru Kimura and Maika Kawaguchi.
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.
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Cast
- Naoya Sekine as Akira Yanagizawa (voice)
- Subaru Kimura as Gonji Abe (voice)
- Maika Kawaguchi as Shizu Miyanaga (voice)
- Sayaka Hanamura as Rieko Sakamoto (voice)
- Eri Osonoe as Yayoi Tajima (voice)
- Tetsuya Kannami as Teru Yoshimura (voice)
- Kurumi Honta as Kimiyo Arima (voice)
- Seigo Kuwabara as Yoshio Kawabata (voice)
- Hikari Yono as Fukuko Yanagizawa (mother) (voice)
- Kanon Nagashima as Reiko Yanagizawa (voice)
- Takaya Hashi as Genji Yanagizawa (voice)
- Yasuo Iwata as Preside Ikeno (voice)