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Writers:
Jiro Asada (novel)
Yoshiki Iwama (writer)
Release Date:
5 June 1999 (Japan) more
Tagline:
Arigatou- Kono omoi todoku darouka.
Awards:
21 wins & 6 nominations more
User Comments:
A touching movie about a man with faults more (13 total)
Cast
(Credited cast) | Ken Takakura | ... | Otomatsu Sato |
| Shinobu Ôtake | ... | Shizue Sato |
| Ryoko Hirosue | ... | Yukiko Sato |
| Hidetaka Yoshioka | ... | Hideo Sugiura |
| Masanobu Ando | ... | Toshiyuki Yoshioka |
| Ken Shimura | ... | Hajime Yoshioka |
| Tomoko Naraoka | ... | Mune Kato |
| Yoshiko Tanaka | ... | Akiko Sugiura |
| Nenji Kobayashi | ... | Senji Sugiura |
| rest of cast listed alphabetically: | |||
| Eiji Bandô | ... | Mailman |
| Mitsuru Hirata | ... | Kawaguchi |
| Hirotaro Honda | ... | Miner |
| Renji Ishibashi | ... | Town Mayor |
| Kitarô | ... | Milkman |
| Rie Nakahara | ... | Clerk |
| Ken Nakamoto | ... | Iida |
| Sayaka Taniguchi | ||
| Sakuya Yamada | ||
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Railroad Man (USA)
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112 min
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1.85 : 1 more
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I just watched this tonight and had to get it from Hong Kong, via Ebay. I don't agree with the last reviewer, though I recognise the comments about values of the past. That is kind of the point. The movie establishes Sato, the railroader, as a sympathetic character. He's not as cold as his exterior: he does grieve for his wife and his daughter, he does show affection and care for the girls and for his colleague etc. He is criticised and there is a constant theme about how he feels he cannot change. The fact that he should have done this or that differently makes us think about what he should or should not have done.
I found the film touching and thought that it was shot well and had a pretty decent plot. The revelation of the plot at the end was a bit of clumsy exposition, but the movie has heart and I am willing to forgive it.