Rail Truck

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.

Main Cast

Machiko Ono

Yumiko Yano

Age : 42 | Popularity : 10%

Kento Harada

Atsushi Yano

Age : N/A | Popularity : 3%

Kyōichi Ōmae

Kai Yano

Age : N/A | Popularity : 3%

Liu Hong

Grandpa

Age : N/A | Popularity : 3%

Han Chang

Meng-Jian (uncle)

Age : 50 | Popularity : 3%

Mei Fang

Grand mother

Age : 87 | Popularity : 3%

Wanfang

Hua-Xin (aunt)

Age : 56 | Popularity : 3%

Bryant Chang

Zheng-Zhe (birdman)

Age : N/A | Popularity : 3%

Crew

Department	Role	Name
Writing	Novel	Ryūnosuke Akutagawa
	Writer	Hirofumi Kawaguchi Shing-Ming Huang
Art	Production Design	Huang Wen-Ying Wang Chih-Cheng
Camera	Director of Photography	Mark Lee Ping-Bing
Directing	Director	Hirofumi Kawaguchi
Editing	Editor	Yukako Kobayashi
Sound	Music	Ikuko Kawai
Department	Role	Name

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