
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.
Akira Yanagizawa
Yayoi Tajima
Shizu Miyanaga
Teru Yoshimura
Kimiyo Arima
Yoshio Kawabata
Fukuko Yanagizawa (mother)

Reiko Yanagizawa
Genji Yanagizawa

Rieko Sakamoto

Preside Ikeno
Gonji Abe

Hiroshi Sugiura
Mrs. Shimazu

Mr. Akiyama

Mrs. Miyanaga

Mrs. Aoki

Mr. Takii
