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Train Man (2005)
Directed by Shosuke Murakami
“A True Love Story”
Comedy, Romance · 1h 45m
The purportedly true story of a 23-year-old otaku (Japanese geek) who intervened when a drunk man was harassing a woman on a train. The otaku ultimately started dating with her and chronicled his event and his dates with the woman (who became known as "Hermès") on the Japanese mega-BBS 2channel.
Cast
Takayuki Yamada
Densha otoko
Miki Nakatani
Hermes
Ryoko Kuninaka
Rika
Eita Nagayama
Hirofumi
Kuranosuke Sasaki
Hisashi
Tae Kimura
Michiko
Yoshinori Okada
Yoshiga
Ren Osugi
Middle-aged man in train
Hiroki Miyake
Tamura
Makoto Sakamoto
Muto
Momoko Shimizu
Schoolgirl on the train
Naomi Nishida
Hermes's friend
Crew
- Director
- Shosuke Murakami
- Screenplay
- Arisa Kaneko
- Writer
- Hitori Nakano
- Editor
- Junnosuke Hogaki
- Producer
- Akihiro Yamauchi, NIHIRA Tomoyo, Hideki Inada
Details
- Original title
- 電車男
- Release date
- 2005-06-04
- Runtime
- 1h 45m
- Genres
- Comedy, Romance
- Original language
- JA
- Spoken languages
- Japanese
- Countries
- Japan
- Production
- TOHO, Fuji Television Network, Stardust Pictures, Hakuhodo DY Media Partners