Kensuke's Kingdom

Micheal was a boy and he was on a boat with his parents.The boat was called the Peggy sue his father bought it and his mother was concerned but after abit she started liking it One day Kensuke went out fishing and saw Micheal in the water clinging onto a football (Micheal fell out of the bout when his parents we’re sleeping ,his dog jumped out and he went to grab him but he fell of and his football fell of after the boat started going in the other direction and Micheal fell asleep) He did not know what to do so he put Micheal in the boat and Stella (the dogs name ) jumped in after him

He Kensuke rescued Michael from the storm and helps him survive. Kensuke initially forbids Michael from leaving his side of the island and lighting fires. However, after saving Michael yet again and nursing him back to health after he gets stung by a jellyfish, he invites Micasan (Kensuke's name for Michael) to live with him in his cave and begins opening up to Michael.

Michael teaches Kensuke English, and Kensuke teaches Michael how to paint, how to fish with a spear and where to find the best food (such as red bananas) and water. He is eventually revealed to be a doctor and survivor of World War II. Kensuke believes that his family, including his wife Kimi and son Michaya, died in Nagasaki after the atomic bomb was dropped there on 9 August 1945. Over time Kensuke begins to understand how Michael feels and how he misses his family. Together they build a beacon that can be lit to signal to ships, but for a long time they see no sign of any ships. Eventually, however, Michael finds the remains of a ship. He consults with Kensuke as to whether or not they should light the beacon. Kensuke recognises the ship carries poachers, so he and Michael rush to gather all the apes into a cave, to protect them from the threat. They nearly succeed but cannot find one particular orangutan, the one Kensuke calls Kikanbo. The poachers disembark and they hear gunshots. When the ship leaves, they discover that some gibbons have been killed, but Kikanbo had survived.

The next ship they sight is not the poachers', so they light the beacon. The crew on the ship see the fire and heads towards the island. When the boat is closer, Michael sees that it's the Peggy Sue, with his parents on board. However, Kensuke decides not to go home with Micasan after all, saying "This is my place. This Kensuke's Kingdom. Emperor must stay in his Kingdom, look after his people. Emperor does not run away. Not honourable thing to do."

Kensuke asks Micasan to keep his presence on the island a secret for ten years, after which Kensuke will probably be dead. Micasan is reunited with his parents. In the epilogue, it's revealed that four years later, Kensuke's son Michiya, who had survived the Nagasaki bombing, wrote to Michael l asking to meet him to talk about Kensuke. Michael notes that Michiya laughs just like his father.

In August 2018, WildChild Productions took a theatrical adaptation of Kensuke's Kingdom by Stuart Paterson to Edinburgh Festival Fringe.[3] It featured a voiceover by Jenny Agutter.

UK-based Lupus Films began production on an animated version of Kensuke's Kingdom in 2020. Voice actors for the animated version include Sally Hawkins, Cillian Murphy, and Ken Watanabe.

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