Rail Truck (2010)
1h 56m
Running Time
May 22, 2010Release Date
Rail Truck (2010)
1h 56m
Running Time
May 22, 2010Release Date
Network & Production Companies

Plot.
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.
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Cast & Crew.

Machiko Ono
Yumiko Yano

Kento Harada
Atsushi Yano

Kyōichi Ōmae
Kai Yano

Liu Hong
Grandpa

Chang Han
Meng-Jian (uncle)

Mei Fang
Grand mother

Wanfang
Hua-Xin (aunt)

Bryant Chang
Zheng-Zhe (birdman)

Hirofumi Kawaguchi
Director / Writer

Ikuko Kawai
Music

Huang Wen-Ying
Production Design

Liao Ching-Sung
Producer

Wang Chih-Cheng
Production Design

Ryūnosuke Akutagawa
Novel

Yukako Kobayashi
Editor

Mark Lee Ping-Bing
Director of Photography

Shing-Ming Huang
Writer
Media.
