Film

The Story of the Blue-Eyed Girl

2009 · 45m · Animation · War

The story is set in a village in the southern Japanese prefecture of Kōchi during World War II. Even in this remote mountainous area, the perception of American and British people as "brutes" has taken root, due to the deaths and injuries among the villagers' relatives. A elementary schoolgirl named Eiko transfers from the city of Yokohama to this village. Eiko happens to have blue eyes from her American father, and her classmates make no attempt to rein in their bullying. Other than Eiko's homeroom teacher Akiko, even the teachers view Eiko the same way that the children do. However, a boy named Kenta views Eiko more with curiosity than with hostility. The children's lives change as the injured father of one of Kenta's classmates returns from the battlefield and news of more casualties arrives in the village.

Rika Komatsu

Kenta (voice)

Houko Kuwashima

Eiko (voice)

Yumiko Kobayashi

Norio (voice)

Sumi Shimamoto

Akiko (voice)

Atsuko Mine

Taro (voice)

Harumi Asai

Hanayo (voice)

Michie Oka

Shinsuke (voice)

Shin Goto

Military Police (voice)

Hironori Miyata

Aragaki (voice)

Komatsuna Sakato

Boy (voice)

Mami Horikoshi

Fusako (voice)

Masako Isobe

Tomie (voice)

Mitsuyoshi Nishikawa

Hideo (voice)

Miya Hanaki

Yuki (voice)

Ryuji Nakagi

Funeji (voice)

Takashi Nagasako

Okuma (voice)

• Minetaro HiraiDirector
• Tetsuo YasumiDirector
• Nobuyuki FujimotoWriter
• Tomomi ImagawaProducer
• Toshihide YamadaProducer
• Noboru SugiyamaProducer
• Yoshio KatoProducer
• Kouichi YanaiDirector of Photography
• Masae SagaraOriginal Music Composer
• Kiyotaka MiyakeEditor

Release date

August 13, 2009

Status

Released

Original language

Japanese

Runtime

45m

Genres

Animation, War