The Railroad Man

1999

Japanese

7.1

♡ 11

78%

Yasuo Furuhata Director

Hidetaka Yoshioka as Hideo Sugiura

Ken Takakura as Otomatsu Sato

Masanobu Andô as Toshiyuki Yoshioka

Renji Ishibashi as Town Mayor

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.