Rail Truck (Torocco – トロッコ)
German title: Torocco (Draisine)
Francaise title: Torocco
Original title: Torocco – トロッコ
Francaise title: Torocco
Original title: Torocco – トロッコ
Drama – Japan
Production year: 2009
Movie length: 116 minutes
Production year: 2009
Movie length: 116 minutes
Director: Hirofumi Kawaguchi
Writer: Hirofumi Kawaguchi, Shing-Ming Huang, Ryûnosuke Akutagawa
Cinematograph: Ping Bin Lee
Music: Ikuko Kawai
Writer: Hirofumi Kawaguchi, Shing-Ming Huang, Ryûnosuke Akutagawa
Cinematograph: Ping Bin Lee
Music: Ikuko Kawai
Movie description:
Yumiko Yano, with her sons Atsushi and Toki, travel from Tokyo with the ashes of her late husband to his parents’ home in a mountain village in the south of Taiwan. Yumiko, who married against her parents’ wishes, has struggled on in stubborn determination since his death. Her son Atsushi, rebel against both the society in which he has grown up and his mother. In the rural home of his grandparents, who lived through vast changes in the political landscape and the values that prevail in society, the family rediscovers the bonds that unite it.
»Rail Truck« is the coming of age story about an adventure two young brothers have one summer, set against the brilliant green backdrop of rural Taiwan. Elementary school student Atsushi’s father passes away unexpectedly one summer day, and Atsushi, his mother and his younger brother have to carry his father’s ashes to his hometown: a small village in south central Taiwan. There is a sadness in Atsushi’s heart that belies his young age, and he worries about his mother, who in turn meekly fawns over his spoiled younger brother. Their grandfather awaits them in his father’s hometown, that is at the same time so close and yet so far. He welcomes poor little Atsushi, run down as he is by the daily wear and tear of a strained family relationship. His kind words – spoken in fluent Japanese – comfort the boy. Atsushi has a photograph that belonged to his father of an old hand-powered rail truck, and his grandfather helps him locate the spot where the photograph was taken. A few days later, Atsushi gets it in his head to ride the rail truck. At first he exhilarates in the thrill of the rail truck’s speed, but the thrill gradually gives way to uneasiness as the rail trucks cuts its way into the depths of the dense forest.
»Rail Truck« takes its inspiration from a short story, »Torocco«, published in 1922 by Ryunosuke Akutagawa, the writer from two of whose tales director Akira Kurosawa formed his legendary »Rashomon«.
»Rail Truck« is the coming of age story about an adventure two young brothers have one summer, set against the brilliant green backdrop of rural Taiwan. Elementary school student Atsushi’s father passes away unexpectedly one summer day, and Atsushi, his mother and his younger brother have to carry his father’s ashes to his hometown: a small village in south central Taiwan. There is a sadness in Atsushi’s heart that belies his young age, and he worries about his mother, who in turn meekly fawns over his spoiled younger brother. Their grandfather awaits them in his father’s hometown, that is at the same time so close and yet so far. He welcomes poor little Atsushi, run down as he is by the daily wear and tear of a strained family relationship. His kind words – spoken in fluent Japanese – comfort the boy. Atsushi has a photograph that belonged to his father of an old hand-powered rail truck, and his grandfather helps him locate the spot where the photograph was taken. A few days later, Atsushi gets it in his head to ride the rail truck. At first he exhilarates in the thrill of the rail truck’s speed, but the thrill gradually gives way to uneasiness as the rail trucks cuts its way into the depths of the dense forest.
»Rail Truck« takes its inspiration from a short story, »Torocco«, published in 1922 by Ryunosuke Akutagawa, the writer from two of whose tales director Akira Kurosawa formed his legendary »Rashomon«.
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