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Release Date:
April 7, 2007
Original Title:
ふるさと-Japan
Alternate Titles:
Furusato Japan
JAPAN, notre Enfance
La Chorale
Le Voci Della Nostra Infanzia
Mein Heimatland Japan
Genres:
Animation | Drama
Production Countries:
Japan
Ratings / Certifications:
N/A
Runtime: 97
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.
Animation Director:
Makoto Yoshizaki
Takeshi Ito
Hiroaki Noguchi
Satoshi Hirayama
Masaya Yasutome
Futoshi Higashide
Character Designer:
Hiroshi Kugimiya
Director:
Akio Nishizawa
Executive Producer:
Tadahiro Murakami
Key Animation:
Keiko Nakaji
Michio Sato
Shojuro Yamauchi
Kuniyuki Ishii
Hajime Matsuzaki
Emi Watanabe
Yoshinobu Michihata
Mineko Ueda
Asami Miyazaki
Takuya Kawai
Hiroshi Konno
Takeshi Ito
Noriko Takiyama
Kozo Masanobu
Kinichirou Suzuki
Toshiharu Sugie
Shinobu Mori
Shigenobu Nagasaki
Masaya Yasutome
Toshiki Yoshida
Miyuki Goto
Hideo Amemiya
Sawako Miyamoto
Kōichirō Kawano
Jun Shibata
Ikko Kobayashi
Jouji Yanase
Screenplay:
Akio Nishizawa
Sound Director:
Yoku Shioya
Supervising Animation Director:
Hiroshi Kugimiya
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