Railways (film)

Railways (RAILWAYS 49歳で電車の運転士になった男の物語, Railways 49-sai de Densha no Untenshi ni Natta Otoko no Monogatari) is a Japanese film released on 29 May 2010. The film was produced by Shūji Abe, directed by Yoshinari Nishikōri, and stars Kiichi Nakai and Reiko Takashima.

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• Plot
• Cast
• References

Plot

The movie tells the story of a 49-year-old office worker, who quits his job in Tokyo to become a train driver on the rural Ichibata Electric Railway in Shimane Prefecture.

Cast

Kiichi Nakai as Hajime Tsutsui

Yuika Motokariya as Sachi, Hajime's daughter

Reiko Takashima as Yukiko, Hajime's wife

Tomoko Naraoka as Kinyo, Hajime's mother

Takahiro Miura as Miyata Daigo

Isao Hashizume as the Ichibata Railway chief

Shiro Sano as the Ichibata Railway deputy

Yoshiko Miyazaki as Moriyama, a nurse

Kenichi Endo as Kawahira

Ken Nakamoto as Nishida

Masahiro Komoto as Fukushima, the chief instructor

Tetsu Watanabe as Takahashi, a veteran train mechanic

Kanta Ogata as Yabuuchi, the train driver trainer

Masanori Ishii as Takubo, the railway controller

Matsunosuke Shofukutei as Toyo, the gardener