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.
Subaru Kimura | Gonji Abe |
Naoya Sekine | Akira Yanagizawa |
Eri Osonoe | Yayoi Tajima |
Maika Kawaguchi | Shizu Miyanaga |
Tetsuya Kannami | Teru Yoshimura |
Kurumi Honta | Kimiyo Arima |
Seigo Kuwabara | Yoshio Kawabata |
Hikari Yono | Fukuko Yanagizawa (mother) |
Rumi Nakamura | Fukuko Yanagizawa (sister) |
Kanon Nagashima | Reiko Yanagizawa |
Takaya Hashi | Genji Yanagizawa |
Sayaka Hanamura | Rieko Sakamoto |