Rail Truck
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- Movie: Rail Truck
- Romaji: Torocco
- Japanese: トロッコ
- Chinese: 軌道
- Director: Hirofumi Kawaguchi
- Writer: Ryunosuke Akutagawa (novel), Hirofumi Kawaguchi, Shing-Ming Huang
- Producer: Tomoko Katahara, Ching-Song Liao, Eiichi Sasaki, Tatsuro Hatanaka
- Cinematographer: Pin Bing Lee
- Release Date: May 22, 2010
- Runtime: 116 min.
- Distributor: Bitters End
- Language: Japanese, Mandarin, Taiwanese
- Country: Japan, Taiwan
Plot
Yumiko Yano, with sons Atsushi and Toki, travels from her home in Tokyo with the ashes of her late husband to his parents' home, a mountain village in the south of Taiwan. Having been raised in the big city, the boys are wide-eyed at the verdant rural scenery...and waiting for them is a Taiwanese grandfather who speaks Japanese.
Yumiko, who married against her parents' wishes, has struggled on in stubborn determination since his death. 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 the verdant rural home of his grandparents, who have lived through vast changes in the political landscape and the values that prevail in society, the family rediscovers the bonds that unite it.
Setting out on a journey aboard an old-fashioned hand-powered ‘rail truck', Atsushi discovers a world outside of his family and his school, and is forced to confront the question of what it means to be both an ‘elder brother' and a ‘son'.
Cast
- Machiko Ono - Yumiko
- Kento Harada - Atsushi
- Mei Fang - grandmother
- Liu Hong - grandfather
- Kyoichi Omae - Toki
- Bryant Chang - Zheng-Zhe "birdman"
Film Festivals
- 2010 (34th) Montreal World Film Festival - August 26-September 6 - First Films World Competition
- 2010 (7th) Hong Kong Asian Film Festival - October 22-November 8 - New Talent Award
- 2011 (5th) JAPAN CUTS: The New York Festival of Contemporary Japanese Cinema - July 7-22, 2011 *U.S. Premiere
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