Weird Volunteers
1993, Japanese. Directed by Kimio Yabuki.
A film produced and paid for by Kitakyushu City's Board of Education and Council for the Promotion of Outcast Issue Awareness. The story follows two second-year junior high girls who discover an old lady collapsed outside her home in rural Japan. After assisting her back inside, the two hear the old lady's harrowing life story and discover that she is illiterate. Shocked by this, the girls vow to volunteer their time to teach the old woman to read and write each day.
- Runtime
- 0h 46m
- Post-credits
- None listed
- Language
- Japanese
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Cast & crew
- Kimio YabukiDirector
- Hisako KyodaYone Baachan (voice)
- Hikaru MidorikawaMakio Kato (voice)
- Hirohiko KakegawaKatsuta Sensei (voice)
- Megumi UrawaMiyuki Kawaguchi (voice)
- Shinichiro OtaIchiro Yamada (voice)
- Yoko TeppozukaFumie Nakamura (voice)
- Akiko SekineYone's Mother (voice)
- Atsushi KisaichiFollower B (voice)
- Daisuke SakaguchiFollower A (voice)
- Ichiro NagaiYoichi Yamamoto (voice)
- Masaharu SatoYone's Father (voice)
- Yuko NagashimaYuka Inoue (voice)
Details
- Released
- 1 January 1993
- Original title
- へんてこな ボランティア
- Country
- Japan
- Written by
- Kimio Yabuki
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Weird Volunteers runs 46 minutes (0h 46m).
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Weird Volunteers isn’t streaming on any OTT platform in India yet; it released on 1 January 1993. (Checked 9 November 2026.)
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Who directed Weird Volunteers?
Weird Volunteers (1993) was directed by Kimio Yabuki and stars Hisako Kyoda, Hikaru Midorikawa, Hirohiko Kakegawa.