All entries for Friday 21 January 2005
January 21, 2005
This is so damn fun
Writing about web page http://www.kontraband.com/wordsview.asp?ID=166
check the link out~Popoya: Railroad Man
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1999
Japan
Colour
Director: Yasuo Furuhata
Cast:
Ken Takakura
Nenji Kobayashi
Shinobu Otake
Ryoko Hirosue
Hidetaka Yoshioka
Patriotic propaganda film. But tearwinning.
This film is about an honourable Japanese rail man's life, interwoven with some magical Japanese fairy tales re-interpreted into the story's frame. I give it three stars because I like the acting a lot.
The film in a whole, is very stereotypical, and old-fashioned. Good for being nostalgic. Both for the Japanese and those who share the memory of the influencial Japanese culture before 1980s.