Release Date

22 May, 2010

Runtime

01:56: (HH:MM)

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.

Original Title

トロッコ

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Actors

尾野真千子

Kento Harada

Kyōichi Ōmae

Liu Hong

張翰

梅芳

萬芳

Bryant Chang

Crew

川口浩史

Ikuko Kawai

黃文英

王誌成

芥川龍之介

小林由加子

李屏賓

Shing-Ming Huang

川口浩史