The Island Closest to Heaven (天国にいちばん近い島, Tengoku ni ichiban chikai shima) is a 1984 Japanese film directed by Nobuhiko Obayashi, based on an original story by Morimura Katsura [fr].

[1] After her father's sudden death, a Japanese high school girl travels to the southwest Pacific archipelago of New Caledonia in search of the location, which they had agreed to visit together, of the film's title.

From her encounters with Japanese émigrés and locals, she learns where the real island closest to heaven may be found.

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