Take the "A" Train
Nominees and Awards
- ★ 2013 Mainichi Film Concours Best Film Score
Synopsis
A heartwarming comedy that follows two young men from contrasting backgrounds who meet through their shared hobby of "railroading" and struggle with love and work, respectively, while nurturing their friendship. The modern characters, who are based on the "herbivore men" concept, create a realistic atmosphere.
Team
Director
MORITA Yoshimitsu
MORITA Yoshimitsu was born in January 1950 in Chigasaki, Japan. Self-taught, first making shorts on 8mm film during the 1970s, he made his feature debut with Something Like It (1981). In 1983, he won acclaim for Kazoku Gēmu (The Family Game), which was voted the best film of the year by Japanese critics in the Kinema Junpo magazine poll and won him the Directors Guild of Japan New Directors Award. He has been nominated for eight Japanese Academy Awards, winning the 2004 Best Director award for Like Asura. He died from acute liver failure in Tokyo in December 2011.
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