The Island Closest to Heaven

Year: 1984

Runtime: 103 mins

Language: Japanese

Director: Nobuhiko Obayashi

Drama

A Japanese teenager travels to New Caledonia in search of the fabled “island closest to heaven” that her late father had told her about.

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