Rail Truck (2010)

ALL 05/22/2010 (ja) Drama 116 Min
  • Release
    05/22/2010
  • Production
    AMUSE, J&K Entertainment, Plenty Co., Torocco
  • Rotten tomato
    0%
  • Original title
    トロッコ
  • Original language
    ja
  • Production Cost
  • 0.00
    -

Overview

A tale of two islands and growing up as a stranger in a strange land, told with an artistry that recalls Hou Hsiao-Hsien at his best. Based on Ryunosuke Akutagawa’s short story of the same title (1922), Kawaguchi’s film moves the original early 20th-century Izu Peninsula to present-day Taiwan, where the strength of family ties is singularly put to the test. Yumiko (Machiko Ono), who married against her parents' wishes, has struggled on in stubborn determination since her husband’s death, moving her family from their Tokyo home to the verdant, rural Taiwan village of her in-laws. Her son Atsushi, strongly conscious that in ethnocentric Japan he is "different," is in a state of rebellion against both the society in which he has grown up and his mother. In their new home the family rediscovers the bonds that unite it.

  1. Story

  2. Producer



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  1. Machiko Ono

    Yumiko Yano

  2. Kento Harada

    Atsushi Yano

  3. Kyōichi Ōmae

    Kai Yano

  4. Liu Hong

    Grandpa

  5. Chang Han

    Meng-Jian (uncle)

  6. Mei Fang

    Grand mother

  7. Wanfang

    Hua-Xin (aunt)

  8. Bryant Chang

    Zheng-Zhe (birdman)

Full Cast & Crew

Casts : 8 , Crews : 9

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Rail Truck (2010) 116 Min

ALL 05/22/2010 (ja)
Drama
  • Release 05/22/2010
  • Production
    AMUSE, J&K Entertainment, Plenty Co., Torocco
  • Original title トロッコ
  • ja
  • Revenue0.00

Overview

A tale of two islands and growing up as a stranger in a strange land, told with an artistry that recalls Hou Hsiao-Hsien at his best. Based on Ryunosuke Akutagawa’s short story of the same title (1922), Kawaguchi’s film moves the original early 20th-century Izu Peninsula to present-day Taiwan, where the strength of family ties is singularly put to the test. Yumiko (Machiko Ono), who married against her parents' wishes, has struggled on in stubborn determination since her husband’s death, moving her family from their Tokyo home to the verdant, rural Taiwan village of her in-laws. Her son Atsushi, strongly conscious that in ethnocentric Japan he is "different," is in a state of rebellion against both the society in which he has grown up and his mother. In their new home the family rediscovers the bonds that unite it.

  1. Hirofumi Kawaguchi

    Director

  2. Story

  3. Yukako Kobayashi

    Editor

  4. Producer