Kueki ressha
The Drudgery Train
- Release Date
- July, 14th, 2012
- Running Time
- 113 min
- Genre
- Feature
- Color
- Color
- Screening Format
- 35mm,DCP
- Screen Size
- American Vista (1:1.85)
- Subtitle
- English
[ Directed by ]
[ Produced by ]
[ Cast ]
- MORIYAMA Mirai ── KITAMACHI Kanta
- KORA Kengo ── KUSAKABE Shoji
- MAEDA Atsuko ── SAKURAI Yasuko
[ Staff ]
- NISHIMURA Kenta ── Original Story
- IMAOKA Shinji ── Screenplay
- IKEUCHI Yoshihiro ── Cinematography
- SHINCO ── Music
- SATO Takashi ── Editor
[ Production Company ]
"Kueki Ressha" Film Partners
[ Distributor (Japan) ]
TOEI
[ Story ]
Japanese film industry leader Yamashita Nobuhiro directs this film adaptation of the Akutagawa Prize-winning novel by Nishimura Kenta. Depicts the doleful adolescence of a 19-year-old junior high school graduate who works as a physical laborer. Moriyama Mirai plays the role of protagonist Kitamachi Kanta, who is a projection of the novelist himself.
The year is 1986. Loner day-laborer Kanta (Moriyama) becomes friendly with Shoji (Kora Kengo), who he meets on the job, and Yasuko (Maeda Atsuko), who works at a nearby used book shop. However, Kanta's crotchety personality creates a fissure in the threesome.
[ Official Site ]
[ Film Festivals, Awards ]
2012 Shanghai International Film Festival, Panorama
2012 Chicago International Film Festival, World Cinema
[ Contact (International) ]
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