Rail Truck (2010)
Synopsis
A tale of two islands and growing up as a stranger in a strange land, told with an artistry that recalls Hou Hsiao-Hsien at his best. Based on Ryunosuke Akutagawa’s short story of the same title (1922), Kawaguchi’s film moves the original early 20th-century Izu Peninsula to present-day Taiwan, where the strength of family ties is singularly put to the test. Yumiko (Machiko Ono), who married against her parents' wishes, has struggled on in stubborn determination since her husband’s death, moving her family from their Tokyo home to the verdant, rural Taiwan village of her in-laws. 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 their new home the family rediscovers the bonds that unite it.
Release Date: 2010-05-22
Runtime: 116 minutes
Director: Hirofumi Kawaguchi
Top Cast
- Machiko Ono as Yumiko Yano
- Kento Harada as Atsushi Yano
- Kyōichi Ōmae as Kai Yano
- Liu Hong as Grandpa
- Chang Han as Meng-Jian (uncle)
- Mei Fang as Grand mother
- Wanfang as Hua-Xin (aunt)
- Bryant Chang as Zheng-Zhe (birdman)
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