

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
Gonji Abe (voice)
Maika Kawaguchi
Shizu Miyanaga (voice)

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
Fukuko Yanagizawa (mother) (voice)
Kanon Nagashima
Reiko Yanagizawa (voice)

Takaya Hashi
Genji Yanagizawa (voice)
Yasuo Iwata
Preside Ikeno (voice)
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