, also known as The Railroad Man, is a 1999 Japanese film directed by Yasuo Furuhata. It was Japan's submission to the 72nd Academy Awards for the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film, but was not accepted as a nominee. It was chosen as Best Film at the Japan Academy Prize ceremony. The film was the third-highest-grossing film of the year in Japan.

Synopsis

A railway station master at a dying end-of-the-line village in Hokkaido is haunted by memories of his dead wife and daughter. When the line serving the village is scheduled for closure, an erstwhile colleague offers him a job at a resort hotel, but he is emotionally unable to part with his career as a railwayman. His life takes a turn when he meets a young woman with an interest in trains who resembles his daughter.

Cast

• Ken Takakura: Otomatsu Satō

• Shinobu Otake: Shizue Satō

• Ryōko Hirosue: Yukiko Satō

• Hidetaka Yoshioka: Hideo Sugiura

• Masanobu Ando: Toshiyuki Yoshioka

• Ken Shimura: Hajime Yoshioka

• Hirotarō Honda : Miner

• Tomoko Naraoka: Mune Katō

• Yoshiko Tanaka: Akiko Sugiura

• Nenji Kobayashi: Senji Sugiura

See also

• Cinema of Japan

• List of submissions to the 72nd Academy Awards for Best Foreign Language Film

• List of Japanese submissions for the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film

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