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

Subaru Kimura

Gonji Abe (voice)

Sayaka Hanamura

Rieko Sakamoto (voice)

Hikari Yono

Fukuko Yanagizawa (mother) (voice)

Takaya Hashi

Genji Yanagizawa (voice)

Sayuri Sadaoka

Mrs. Shimazu (voice)

Yoji Ueda

Mr. Akiyama (voice)

Keiko Sonoda

Mrs. Miyanaga (voice)

Eri Saito

Mrs. Aoki (voice)

Masaki Terasoma

Mr. Takii (voice)