Iori Igarashi works as a radiographer at a general hospital. He has been depressed, because An Amakasu, whom he loves, has decided to travel abroad to Washington Medical University to learn more as radiologist. The members of Radiation House encourages Iori. One day, An learns that her father is in serious condition. Her father was the only practicing doctor at a small clinic on a remote island. When An arrives, her father tells her to be a doctor who sees patients as a person and not a disease before he passed away. An decides to stay on the island because of a patient that her father cared about. A massive typhoon soon hits the island and a landslide then occurs. An unknown infectious disease spreads afterwards on the island. Iori knows that An is struggling on the remote island and he makes a decision for An and the residents of the island.
Acting
Kubota's wounded puppy eyes carry entire scenes.
Cinematography
Typhoon sequences look genuinely terrifying.
Writing
Dad's deathbed speech hits embarrassingly hard.
Director
Masayuki Suzuki
Masataka Kubota
Iori Igarashi
Tsubasa Honda
An Amakasu
Alice Hirose
Hirono Hirose
Sayaka Yamaguchi
Tamaki Kurohane
Tomomi Maruyama
Kei Ino
Nobuyuki Suzuki
Shuntaro Tsujimura
Kenichi Endo
Toshio Onodera
Emi Wakui
Nagisa Omori
Himeka Asami
Satomi Minami
Kazuyuki Asano
Yasutomi Kaburagi
Kenta Hamano
Goro Nokishita
Masato Yano
Rin Yuki
Kenta Satoi
Shoichi Amakasu
Ikusaburo Yamazaki
Keisuke Takahashi
Yumi Wakatsuki
Natsuki Takahashi
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Based on a manga that ran for 9 years; this film wraps the entire series. SpoilerLevel: FREE
The 'shima-machi' (island clinic) doctor is a dying archetype in Japanese media, reflecting real rural medical shortages. SpoilerLevel: FREE
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