Ruri's Island ( Air Date 2005-04-16 ) Genre Drama, Family category. 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.".
Ruri's Island
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- Stars: Riko Narumi, Yutaka Takenouchi, Ken Ogata, Mitsuko Baisho, Manami Konishi, Fumiyo Kohinata, Sei Hiraizumi, Yoshie Ichige, Sansei Shiomi, Ittoku Kishibe, Sakura, Taeko Yoshida, Toshiki Kashû, Haruka Igawa, Masanobu Katsumura, Mayuko Nishiyama, Naomi Nishida, Risa Junna, Noboru Kaneko, Anzu Nagai
- Director: Yoshiko Morishita, Tadashi Morishita, Yuki Takeda, Kenji Ikeda, Toshio Terada, Kazuya Toda, Masahiro Kunimoto, Hisashi Tsugiya, Ryuichi Inomata, Shunsuke Kuroda, Kentaro Kobuchi, Takefumi Haketa, Katsu Moriguchi
