Railroad Man
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- Movie: Railroad Man
- Romaji: Poppoya
- Japanese: 鉄道員（ぽっぽや）
- Director: Yasuo Furuhata
- Assistant Director: Kiyoshi Sasabe
- Writer: Jiro Asada (novel), Yoshiki Iwama, Yasuo Furuhata
- Producer:
- Cinematographer:
- Release Date: June 5, 1999
- Runtime: 112 min.
- Language: Japanese
- Country: Japan
Plot
A signalman at a remote train station in the heartland of Japan receives news that the job he has laboured at all his life is coming to an end as the train company have decided his station is uneconomic and are set to close it soon. Facing an uncertain future and recently widowed, the signalman takes solace from the past; a past that he increasingly comes to realise was laden with the wrong priorities.
Cast
- Ken Takakura - Otomatsu Sato
- Shinobu Ootake - Shizue Sato
- Ryoko Hirosue - Yukiko Sato
- Hidetaka Yoshioka - Hideo Sugiura
- Masanobu Ando - Toshiyuki Yoshioka
- Ken Shimura - Hajime Yoshioka
- Tomoko Naraoka - Mune Kato
- Yoshiko Tanaka - Akiko Sugiura
- Nenji Kobayashi - Senji Sugiura
- Eiji Bando - Mailman
- Mitsuru Hirata - Kawaguchi
- Hirotaro Honda - Miner
- Renji Ishibashi - Town Mayor
- Kitarou - Milkman
- Rie Nakahara - Clerk
- Ken Nakamoto - Iida
- Sayaka Taniguchi
- Sakuya Yamada
- Daisuke Honda
Trailer (U.S.)
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Awards
- "Best Actor" (Ken Takakura) - 1999 (42nd) Blue Ribbon Awards - February 12, 2000
