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.
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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
さくら
Kawashima Mihoko
Taeko Yoshida
Granny Kamado
Toshiki Kashû
Saito Shigeru
Haruka Igawa
Nakajima / Saito Mizuki
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