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Railroad Man (1999)
Directed by Yasuo Furuhata
Drama · 1h 52m
A railway stationmaster at a dying end-of-the-line village in Hokkaido is haunted by memories of his dead wife and daughter. When the railroad line is scheduled to be closed, he is offered a job at a hotel, but he is emotionally unable to part with his career as a railroader. His life takes a turn when he meets a young woman with an interest in trains who resembles his daughter.
Cast
Ken Takakura
Otomatsu Sato
Ryoko Hirosue
Yukiko Sato
Hidetaka Yoshioka
Hideo Sugiura
Masanobu Ando
Toshiyuki Yoshioka
Ken Shimura
Hajime Yoshioka
Shinobu Otake
Shizue Sato
Tomoko Naraoka
Mune Kato
Yoshiko Tanaka
Akiko Sugiura
Nenji Kobayashi
Senji Sugiura
Eiji Bandō
Mailman
Mitsuru Hirata
Kawaguchi
Hirotaro Honda
Miner
Crew
- Director
- Yasuo Furuhata
- Screenplay
- Yoshiki Iwama, Yasuo Furuhata
- Novel
- Jiro Asada
- Director of Photography
- Daisaku Kimura
- Original Music Composer
- Ryouichi Kuniyoshi
- Editor
- Kiyoaki Saitō
- Producer
- Jun'ichi Shindô, Tan Takaiwa, 石川通生, Asao Tsunoda, Junichi Kimura
Details
- Original title
- 鉄道員
- Release date
- 1999-06-05
- Runtime
- 1h 52m
- Genres
- Drama
- Original language
- JA
- Spoken languages
- Japanese
- Countries
- Japan
- Production
- Toei Company