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Ruri's Island

Ruri's Island

★ 9.0/10•2005•1h 0m•10•Drama•Family

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.

Yuki Takeda · Screenplay

Kenji Ikeda · Director

Tadashi Morishita · Screenplay

Yoshiko Morishita · Screenplay

StatusEnded
Runtime1h 0m
LanguageJA
First Air DateApr 16, 2005

Episodes

Actors

Riko Narumi

Riko Narumi

Ruri Fujisawa

Yutaka Takenouchi

Yutaka Takenouchi

Tatsuya Kawashima / Makoto Takahara

Ken Ogata

Ken Ogata

Yuzo Nakama

Mitsuko Baisho

Mitsuko Baisho

Nakama Megumi

Manami Konishi

Manami Konishi

Sanae Shimabukuro

Fumiyo Kohinata

Fumiyo Kohinata

Yonemori Shomei

Sei Hiraizumi

Sei Hiraizumi

Aragaki Jiei

Yoshie Ichige

Yoshie Ichige

Aragaki Yoshie

Sansei Shiomi

Sansei Shiomi

Miyazono Sohei

Ittoku Kishibe

Ittoku Kishibe

Kishibe Ittoku

Sakura

Kawashima Mihoko

Taeko Yoshida

Granny Kamado

Toshiki Kashû

Toshiki Kashû

Saito Shigeru

Haruka Igawa

Haruka Igawa

Nakajima / Saito Mizuki

Masanobu Katsumura

Masanobu Katsumura

Matsukuma Koji

Mayuko Nishiyama

Mayuko Nishiyama

Matsukuma Natsumi

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