Ruri's Island (2005)
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.
Release date: 2005-04-16
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Orginal language: 日本語
Directors: Kenji Ikeda, Ryuichi Inomata
Screenwriters: Yoshiko Morishita, Tadashi Morishita, Yuki Takeda, Toshio Terada
Novel: Katsu Moriguchi
Seasons
Main cast
Riko Narumi
as Ruri Fujisawa
Yutaka Takenouchi
as Tatsuya Kawashima / Makoto Takahara
Ken Ogata
as Yuzo Nakama
Mitsuko Baisho
as Nakama Megumi
Manami Konishi
as Sanae Shimabukuro
Fumiyo Kohinata
as Yonemori Shomei
Sei Hiraizumi
as Aragaki Jiei
Yoshie Ichige
as Aragaki Yoshie
Sansei Shiomi
as Miyazono Sohei
Ittoku Kishibe
as Kishibe Ittoku
Toshiki Kashû
as Saito Shigeru
Haruka Igawa
as Nakajima / Saito Mizuki
Masanobu Katsumura
as Matsukuma Koji
Mayuko Nishiyama
as Matsukuma Natsumi
Naomi Nishida
as Nao Fujisawa
Risa Junna
as Nakama Takako
Noboru Kaneko
as Kawashima Tatsuya
Anzu Nagai
as Arikawa Izumi
Rest of the main cast - click here to expand
さくら - Kawashima Mihoko, Taeko Yoshida - Granny Kamado
Crew - click here to expand
Yoshiko Morishita - Screenplay, Tadashi Morishita - Screenplay, Yuki Takeda - Screenplay, Kenji Ikeda - Director, Toshio Terada - Screenplay, Kazuya Toda - Producer, Masahiro Kunimoto - Producer, Hisashi Tsugiya - Producer, Ryuichi Inomata - Director, Shunsuke Kuroda - Theme Song Performance, Kentaro Kobuchi - Theme Song Performance, Takefumi Haketa - Original Music Composer, Katsu Moriguchi - Novel