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JAPAN, Our Homeland

2007 · animation · movie5.52 ratings

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

Akira Yanagizawa (voice)

Subaru Kimura

Subaru Kimura

Gonji Abe (voice)

Maika Kawaguchi

Shizu Miyanaga (voice)

Sayaka Hanamura

Sayaka Hanamura

Rieko Sakamoto (voice)

Eri Osonoe

Yayoi Tajima (voice)

Tetsuya Kannami

Teru Yoshimura (voice)

Kurumi Honta

Kimiyo Arima (voice)

Seigo Kuwabara

Yoshio Kawabata (voice)

Hikari Yono

Hikari Yono

Fukuko Yanagizawa (mother) (voice)

Kanon Nagashima

Reiko Yanagizawa (voice)

Takaya Hashi

Takaya Hashi

Genji Yanagizawa (voice)

Yasuo Iwata

Preside Ikeno (voice)

director

Akio Nishizawa

where to watch

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genres

animation, drama

original title

ふるさと-Japan