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Japanese film made in 2003 based on a true story, starring

Rikiya Otaka is a Japanese retired actor. Career Otaka was born in Kanagawa, Japan. At age six he was chosen to play the part of seven-year-old Yoichi Asakawa in ''Ring''. Today, he (alongside Hiroyuki Sanada who played Ryuji Takayama in ''Ring'') is the ...

and directed by Katsumi Sakaguchi.

Plot

Naoki Ono, a 14-year-old boy

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a young girl in the

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. As a result, the large family change their names and live apart, while Naoki goes to a reformatory. Towako, his mother, stays away with her youngest son and youngest daughter, while her husband lives with other family. Three years later, Towako requests that the families reunites and go the island of her birth to be with her dying mother. Thus, the family are back together. But things aren't so simple. Katsumi, Naoki's sister hasn't been able to speak since her brother murdered the girl. Little Subaru (Otaka) has also suffered from the selfishness of his brother. And what of their uncle Satoshi and his family, his own son was killed. The family have never been a 'family' before ... Could Grandmother bring them all together?

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* Japanese television films 2003 television films 2003 films 2000s Japanese-language films Japanese films based on actual events 2000s Japanese films {{2000s-Japan-film-stub