

Ruri's Island (2005)
Drama
Family
90 %
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Overview
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.
Overview
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.
Top Billed Cast

Riko Narumi
Ruri Fujisawa

Yutaka Takenouchi
Tatsuya Kawashima / Makoto Takahara

Ken Ogata
Yuzo Nakama

Mitsuko Baisho
Nakama Megumi

Manami Konishi
Sanae Shimabukuro

Fumiyo Kohinata
Yonemori Shomei

Sei Hiraizumi
Aragaki Jiei

Yoshie Ichige
Aragaki Yoshie

Sansei Shiomi
Miyazono Sohei

Ittoku Kishibe
Kishibe Ittoku
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