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JAPAN, Our Homeland (2007)

Directed by Akio Nishizawa

Overview

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.

Length 97 minutes

Actors

Naoya Sekine | Eri Osonoe | Maika Kawaguchi | Tetsuya Kannami | Kurumi Honta | Seigo Kuwabara | Hikari Yono | Rumi Nakamura | Kanon Nagashima | Takaya Hashi | Sayaka Hanamura | Yasuo Iwata | Subaru Kimura | Kengo Kumagai | Sayuri Sadaoka | Youji Ueda | Keiko Sonoda | Eri Saito | Masaki Terasoma