Masako Katsuki as Tamana
 Yôsuke Naka as Kengyo
 Rokurō Naya as Osyo
 Yasunari Tajima as Tawaraboh
 Ikuko Tani as Itako
 Yae as Okinu
 Yoshie Yamamoto as Omatsu
 Akio Ōtsuka as Santaro

Production

Music
Part of the film's score was recorded in Poland and performed by the Warsaw Philharmonic Orchestra.

Animation
Certain parts of the film were animated at a much higher frame rate than usual for an animated film due to the subtle movements of the shamisen player and the calligraphy in the film. Hiromitsu Agatsuma's performance of the music scenes were filmed and matched exactly for Nitabō's performance.

Release

Box Office
The film was released in Japan on Feb. 21, 2004 and was presented during various international film festivals.

Reception
Nitabo won the Public Award for Best Animated Film at the 11th Lyon Asian Film Festival and‘Authorities failed Rotherham’s children’

About 1 400 children were sexually exploited in a northern England town, a report concluded on Tuesday in a damning account of “collective failures” by authorities to prevent victims as young as 11 from being beaten, raped and trafficked over a 16-year period.

Report author Alexis Jay cited appalling acts of violence between 1997 and 2013 in Rotherham, a town of 250 000. The independent report came after a series of convictions of sexual predators in the region and ground-breaking reports in the Times of London.

Reading descriptions of the abuse make it hard to imagine that nothing was done for so long. The report described rapes by multiple perpetrators, mainly from Britain's Pakistani community, and how children were trafficked to other towns and cities in the