The Island Closest to Heaven - DVD

Sixteen-year-old Mari (Tomoyo Harada) sought to indulge the dream trip that her late father (Yukihiro Takahashi) had always envisioned for them, and ventured with a tour group to New Caladonia. Her choice to go off on her own and try to address her sense of loss brings her to transformative interactions with sundry locals. Nobuhiko Obayashi's evocative coming-of-ager based on the Katsura Morimura novel also stars Ryoichi Takayanagi, Toru Minegishi, Miyoko Akaza. 103 min. Widescreen; Soundtrack Japanese; Subtitles English; audio commentary; featurettes; theatrical trailers. In Japanese with English subtitles.

Follow the largest carnivore that walks the earth, the great Kodiak bear, down ancient feeding trails, up salmon-rich rivers - even into a den where a mother nurses her newborn cubs. You'll watch cubs learning to fish, bears gorging in berry-laden fields, and a remarkable scene of bears consuming a beached whale carcass. The setting is Alaska's Kodiak Island, where 4,000-foot mountains rise from hundreds of miles of jagged coastline. To

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