Noriko Kifune

Ikuko Kifune's mother and Ichiro's supposed lover. In 1986, when she was 14 years old she, along her with her best friend Ichiko Yagura, was travelling on-board the Bright Win. It is rumoured she was pregnant with Ichiro's baby, but when Yuri's body was found and brought aboard the Bright Win, the tsunami caused her to fall overboard. This coincides with a Yamijima belief that all pregnant women who bathe in the Yamijima Sea will bear a cursed child. Noriko was found washed up on the shores of Yamijima Island and reported as the only survivor of the missing ferry. Later when the time fold is fixed and Ryuko never existed, her murder was replaced by Noriko killing Ichiro.