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JAPAN, Our Homeland (movie)

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Alternative title:
Furusato JAPAN (Japanese)
JAPAN, notre Enfance (French)
Japonia – moja ojczyzna (Polish)
La Chorale (French)
Le voci della nostra infanzia (Italian)
Mein Heimatland Japan (German)
Япония, наше отечество (Russian)
ふるさと-JAPAN (Japanese)
故鄉之歌 (Chinese (Taiwan))
Genres: drama
Themes: historical
Plot Summary: 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.
User Ratings: 27 ratings have been given [details]
 Masterpiece: -
 Excellent: 3 votes (sub:3)
 Very good: 7 votes (sub:6, others:1
1 German dubbed
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 Good: 8 votes (sub:5, others:3
1 Polish edited dub
1 Russian subtitled
1 German dubbed
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 Decent: 4 votes (sub:2, others:2
1 Italian subtitled
1 Polish subtitled
)
 So-so: 3 votes (sub:3)
 Not really good: 1 vote (raw:1)
 Weak: -
 Bad: 1 vote (others:1
1 German subtitled
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Seen in part or in whole by 42 users, rank: #7168 (of 10147)
Median rating: Good
Arithmetic mean: 6.815 (Good−), std. dev.: 1.5878, rank: #4852 (of 10318)
Weighted mean: 6.885 (Good), rank: #4419 (of 10318) (seen all: 6.88)
Bayesian estimate: 7.076 (Good), rank: #3206 (of 7759)
Running time: 96 minutes
Vintage: 2007-04-07
Premiere date:
2007-04-07 (Japan)
2008-01-17 (Italy - Future Film Festival)
Release dates: We have 1
Opening Theme:
"Kojo no Tsuki (荒城の月; Moonlit Castle Ruins)" by Tsutomu Aragaki
Ending Theme:
"Utau Hito (歌う人; Singer)" by KOKIA
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Japanese staff
Japanese cast
Director: Akio Nishizawa
Screenplay: Akio Nishizawa
Storyboard: Keiichiro Furuya
Unit Director: Masakatsu Iijima
Music: Makoto Kuriya
Character Design: Hiroshi Kugimiya
Art Director: Tadashi Kudo
Chief Animation Director: Hiroshi Kugimiya
Animation Director:
Futoshi Higashide
Hiroaki Noguchi
Makoto Yoshizaki
Masaya Yasutome
Satoshi Hirayama
Takeshi Itou
Sound Director: Yoku Shioya
Director of Photography: Mitsunobu Yoshida
Executive producer: Masahiro Murakami

Assistant producer: Ryo Segawa
Associate producer: Naoki Ishihara
Background Art:
Fumie Nuibe
Hisayoshi Takahashi
Katsumi Akimoto
Kenji Kato
Masayuki Yamada
Saori Iwatani
Takahiro Terauchi
Tomoko Sekiya
Tomoko Yokota
Color Coordination:
Kazuko Takeuchi
Rieko Sakai
Yūko Kanemaru
Color design: Yūko Kanemaru
Editing: Souji Goto
Key Animation:
Asami Miyazaki
Emi Watanabe
Hajime Matsuzaki
Hideo Amemiya
Hiroshi Konno
Jōji Yanase
Jun Shibata
Kazuyuki Kobayashi
Keiko Nakaji
Kinichirō Suzuki
Kōichirō Kawano
Kōzō Masanobu
Kuniyuki Ishii
Masaya Yasutome
Michio Satō
Mineko Ueda
Miyuki Goto
Noriko Takiyama
Sawako Miyamoto
Shigenobu Nagasaki
Shinobu Mōri
Shōjurō Yamauchi
Takeshi Itou
Takuya Kawai
Toshiharu Sugie
Toshiki Yoshida
Yoshinobu Michihata
Music producer:
Keiko Ushida
Tsutomu Tsuchiya
Planning: Masae Nishizawa
Setting Coordinator: Miki Matsumura
Sound Adjustment: Hajime Takagi
Sound Effects: Shizuo Kurahashi
Sound Mixing: Tsukuru Takagi
Special Effects:
Rieko Sakai
Satoshi Onitsuka
Yoko Suzuki
Theme Song Composition:
Kokia (ED)
Rentaro Taki (OP)
Theme Song Lyrics:
Bansui Doi (OP)
Kokia (ED)
Theme Song Performance:
Kokia (ED)
Tsutomu Aragaki (OP)
Maika Kawaguchi as Shizu Miyanaga
Naoya Sekine as Akira Yanagisawa
Sayaka Hanamura as Ms. Rieko Sakamoto
Subaru Kimura as Gonji "Gon" Abe

Eri Osonoe as Yayoi Tajima
Eri Saitō as Mrs. Aoki, Akira's Neighbor
Hikari Yono as Fukuko Yanagisawa (Akira's Mother)
Ikkyū Juku as Shizu's Father
Kanon Nagashima as Reiko Yanagisawa (Akira's Little Sister)
Keiko Sonoda as Shizu's Mother
Kengo Kumagai as Hiroshi "Hakase" Sugiura
Kurumi Honta as Kimiyo Arima
Masakazu Suzuki as Masaki Sakamoto (Ms. Sakamoto's Brother)
Masaki Terasoma as Mr. Takii
Nana Takada as Hikaru Goto
Rumi Nakamura as Fukuko Yanagisawa (Akira's Old Sister)
Sayuri Sadaoka as Mrs. Shimazu, the Landlady
Seigo Kuwabara as Yoshio Kawabata
Takaya Hashi as Genji Yanagisawa (Akira's Father)
Tetsuya Kannami as Kazuteru "Teru" Yoshimura
Yasuko Hatori as The Owner of Miki Stationery Store
Yasuo Iwata as Principal Ikeno
Yōji Ueda as Mr. Akiyama
Yūko Kobayashi as Announcer at the Chorus Competition
Japanese companies
Animation Production: Wao World
Backgrounds: Studio Pinewood
Film Developing: Toei Labo Tech
Production Cooperation:
Animation Planet
Liberty Ship
Telecom Animation Film
Sound Engineering: Studio Mausu
Sound Mixing Studio: Tokyo TV Center
French cast
French staff
Dubbing Director: Marie Diot

Adaptation: Mathias Delobel
Céline Melloul as Akira
Nayeli Forest as Shizu
Philippe Valmont as Gon

Armand Blü as Shimazu
Claudine Grémy as
Hikaru
Kimiyo
Mère d'Akira
Cyrille Monge as M. Takii
Jean-Marco Montalto as
M. Akiyama
Père d'Akira
Jean-Yves Brignon as M. Mizuno
Marie Diot as
Binocle (Hakase)
Mlle Sakamoto
Yayoi
Nayeli Forest as Kazuko
Philippe Valmont as M. Ikeno
Xavier Thiam as Kaneko
Yannick Blivet as Teru
French companies
Distributor: KAZÉ
Dubbing: Soundfactor
Italian staff
Italian cast
Dubbing Director: Claudio Beccari

Recording engineer:
Manuel Giammaria
Paolo Tiboni
Emanuela Pacotto as Shizu Miyanaga
Giulia Franzoso as Rieko Sakamoto
Stefano Pozzi as Akira Yanagizawa

Adele Pellegatta as Signora Shimazu
Alessandra Karpoff as Fukuko Yanagizawa (madre)
Davide Garbolino as Teru Yoshimura
Diego Sabre as Signor Akiyama
Donatella Fanfani as Signora Miyanaga
Elisabetta Cesone as Signora Aoki
Federico Zanandrea as Yoshio Kawabata
Giorgio Bonino as Preside Ikeno
Giovanna Papandrea as Reiko Yanagizawa
Giuliana Atepi as Kimiyo Arima
Jenny De Cesarei as Fukuko Yanagizawa (sorella; sorella)
Loretta Di Pisa as Yayoi Tajima
Marco Balzarotti as Genji Yanagizawa
Italian companies
Dubbing Studio: ADC group
German staff
German cast
(none)
Julia Ziffer as Rieko Sakamoto
Laura Elßel as Shizu Miyanaga
Maximilian Artajo as Akira Yanagisawa
Yoshij Grimm as Gonji"Gon" Abe

Adrian Kilian as Kazuteru "Teru" Yoshimura
Jan-Nicklas Beeck as Yoshio Kawabata
Peter Reinhardt as Rektor Ikeno
Sami El-Sabkhawi as Hiroshi "Hakase" Sugiura
German companies
Distributor:
Anime-Virtual
Kazé Germany (now)
Dubbing: Elektrofilm
Chinese (Taiwan) staff
Chinese (Taiwan) companies
(none)
Chinese (Taiwan) cast
(none)

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