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JAPAN, Our Homeland(2007)
Status: Released
Date: 2007-04-07
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Time: 1h 37m
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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.
Languages: Japanese.
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Japan
Movie: JAPAN, Our Homeland
Top 10 Billed Cast
木村昴
Gonji Abe (voice)
花村さやか
Rieko Sakamoto (voice)
Hikari Yono
Fukuko Yanagizawa (mother) (voice)
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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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2007-04-07
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