Thousand Cranes
April 1954. 12 year old schoolgirl Sadako thinks her main problem is being unable to pass the baton in relay races. But just as her team starts winning, she starts getting tired more easily. She is sent back to the American Base Victory Hospital, where the diagnosis is lymphatic leukemia.
Gin Maeda
Chieko Baisho
Mako Ishino
Hiromi Iwasaki
Saburo Shinoda
Taiji Tonoyama