Metro ni notte
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- Movie: Metro ni notte
- Romaji: Metro ni notte
- Japanese: 地下鉄（メトロ）に乗って
- Director: Tetsuo Shinohara
- Writer: Jiro Asada (novel)
- Producer:
- Cinematographer:
- Release Date: October 21, 2006
- Runtime: 121 min
- Language: Japanese
- Country: Japan
Plot
Salesman Shinji (Tsutsumi Shinichi) is at the subway station on his normal daily commute when he receives words that his estranged father has been hospitalized. Shinji's strained relationship with his unscrupulous father goes back many years, and the news awakens some unhappy memories. At that moment, he sees a person resembling his brother, who passed away forty years ago, leaving the platform, and he hurriedly follows. When Shinji steps out of the station, he finds himself in 1964... Based on Asada Jiro's bestselling novel, Metro ni Notte ("Riding on the Metro") plays with both fantasy and psychological elements, jumping constantly between past and present as the protagonist journeys through time. Director Shinohara Tetsuo (Heaven's Bookstore and Yokubo) uses the time-traveling premise to bring new layers to classic family drama themes of spite and reconciliation. Like the acclaimed Always - Sunset on Third Street, which Tsutsumi Shinichi also appeared in, Metro ni Notte gives viewers a nostalgic glimpse of days gone by, traveling through forty years of time as reflected in the life of Shinji's father, played by popular actor Osawa Takao (Crying Out Love, In the Center of the World).
Cast
- Shin'ichi Tsutsumi - Shinji Hasebe
- Takao Osawa - Sakichi Konuma
- Aya Okamoto - Michiko Karube
- Takako Tokiwa - Otoki
- Takahiro Hojo - Shoichi Hasebe
- Hiromi Sakimoto - Shinji Konuma
- Takashi Sasano
- Min Tanaka
- Kazuko Yoshiyuki
- Ouki Fujimoto
Awards
- "Best Supporting Actor" (Takao Osawa) - 2006 (19th) Nikkan Sports Film Awards - December 28, 2006
cartmann Says:
Sep 29 2011 2:56 pm
I agree with the first comment. The players are all convincing and watchable, but, What just happened here? Did they explain why dad is such a violent jerk? I was happy to be able to see lovely Aya Okamoto, nonetheless, and wish that she would find her way back to the business as her inclusion is always a huge bonus to each project she has appeared in. The main reason that I much prefer Japanese and Korean dramas to movies is that they have much longer to develop characters and stories into something that makes sense. If the audience is left still scratching it's head at the conclusion, maybe it would have been better to run a few minutes less of the closing credits in favor of a few minutes more of the actual feature...
the206 Says:
Apr 15 2009 12:24 pm
Started out interestingly enough but all of the loose ends from first half of the film was taken care of by driving the last 30 minutes into utter non-sense. It is as if the writer just ran out of ideas on how to end the film. Acting was good but the script needed further development.