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Ruri, having been abandoned by her mother to a foster care facility, lives a life of reckless abandonment. When Nakama Yuzo, a kind man but for a trigger-happy temper, runs into Ruri he realizes that perhaps she's the child he's been looking for. Yuzo lives in Hatomijima, a small insland in Okinawa where the population is 49 and the average age group is 61. There are no children. The island has only one school - a primary school. If a child is not enrolled in the school, it will be closed. As a result, society will abandon the island and in a few years, it will cease to have any inhabitants. To save their island, the locals decide to bring in a foster child. Ruri is their candidate, and with her she brings the hope of the island's survival.Read moreLess
Ruri, having been abandoned by her mother to a foster care facility, lives a life of reckless abandonment. When Nakama Yuzo, a kind man but for a trigger-happy temper, runs into Ruri he realizes that perhaps she's the child he's been looking for. Yuzo lives in Hatomijima, a small insland in Okinawa where the population is 49 and the average age group is 61. There are no children. The island has only one school - a primary school. If a child is not enrolled in the school, it will be closed. As a result, society will abandon the island and in a few years, it will cease to have any inhabitants. To save their island, the locals decide to bring in a foster child. Ruri is their candidate, and with her she brings the hope of the island's survival.
The story
Ruri, having been abandoned by her mother to a foster care facility, lives a life of reckless abandonment. When Nakama Yuzo, a kind man but for a trigger-happy temper, runs into Ruri he realizes that perhaps she's the child he's been looking for. Yuzo lives in Hatomijima, a small insland in Okinawa where the population is 49 and the average age group is 61. There are no children. The island has only one school - a primary school. If a child is not enrolled in the school, it will be closed. As a result, society will abandon the island and in a few years, it will cease to have any inhabitants. To save their island, the locals decide to bring in a foster child. Ruri is their candidate, and with her she brings the hope of the island's survival.
Cast & crew
Riko NarumiRuri Fujisawa
Yutaka TakenouchiTatsuya Kawashima / Makoto Takahara
Ken OgataYuzo Nakama
Mitsuko BaishoNakama Megumi
Manami KonishiSanae Shimabukuro
Fumiyo KohinataYonemori Shomei
Sei HiraizumiAragaki Jiei
Yoshie IchigeAragaki Yoshie
Sansei ShiomiMiyazono Sohei
Ittoku KishibeKishibe IttokuExplore the crew
- Screenplay
- Yuki Takeda
- Director
- Kenji Ikeda
- Screenplay
- Tadashi Morishita
- Screenplay
- Yoshiko Morishita
- Director
- Ryuichi Inomata
- Screenplay
- Toshio Terada
- Producer
- Kazuya Toda
- Producer
- Hisashi Tsugiya
- Producer
- Masahiro Kunimoto
- Original Music Composer
- Takefumi Haketa