Paul Rusch: His Life and Dream

An animated film about Paul Rusch, an American missionary who helped build churches, schools, hospitals in Japan and overall helped improve life in rural areas of Japan along with soothing post-WW2 relations between the two countries.

Cast

Tessyo Genda

as Paul Rusch (voice)

Ai Orikasa

as Koichi (voice)

Yuko Mizutani

as Dr. Uematsu Kikue (voice)

Katsumi Toriumi

as Shigeru (voice)

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