The Island Closest to Paradise

When high school girl Katsuragi Banri (Harada Tomoyo) was 5 years old, her father (Takahashi Yukihiro) ) once described to her a beautiful island in the South Pacific, New Caledonia, which is the closest place to heaven. The local people live and work in peace and contentment, carefree, as if they are living in a fairyland. After his father passed away, Wan Li never forgot the promise to go to New Caledonia with him. She bid farewell to her mother (played by Matsuo Kayo) and embarked on a journey to Australia alone. After a few days of travel, Wan Li discovered that New Caledonia was not the island in his mind. After that, he traveled to Ildban with the fake tour guide Fukaya Yuichi (played by Minegishi Toru); he visited Uvia Island with the third-generation Japanese youth Taro Watanabe (played by Takayanagi Ryoichi), but it seemed to be far from "the island closest to heaven" as his father said. Wan Li's time here is getting shorter and shorter... The film is adapted from the novel of the same name by Katsura Morimura.