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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.
Vintage: 2007-04-07
Premiere date:
2007-04-07 (Japan)
2008-01-17 (Italy - Future Film Festival)
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

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

Color design: Yuko Kanemaru

Editing: Souji Goto

Music producer:
Keiko Ushida
Tsutomu Tsuchiya

Planning: Masae Nishizawa

Setting Coordinator: Miki Matsumura

Sound Mixing: Tsukuru Takagi

Theme Song Composition:
Kokia (ED)
Rentaro Taki (OP)

Theme Song Lyrics:
Bansui Doi (OP)
Kokia (ED)

Theme Song Performance:
Kokia (ED)
Tsutomu Aragaki (OP)

Unit Director: Masakatsu Iijima

 

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 Saito as Mrs. Aoki, Akira's Neighbor

Hikari Yono as Fukuko Yanagisawa (Akira's Mother)

Ikkyuu 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

Youji Ueda as Mr. Akiyama

Yuko Kobayashi as Announcer at the Chorus Competition

Japanese companies 

Animation Production: Wao World

French staff 
French cast 
(none)
 

Nayeli Forest as Shizu

Jean-Marc Montalto as Akiyama

French companies 

Distributor: Kaze

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

Dubbing: Elektrofilm


Chinese (Taiwan) staff 
(none)
Chinese (Taiwan) companies 

Licensed by: Mighty Media Co., Ltd.

Chinese (Taiwan) cast 
(none)
 
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