Densha otoko (2005)

User Rating:

6.9/10   

Director:

Shosuke Murakami

Writers:

Hitori Nakano (novel)
Arisa Kaneko (screenplay)

Release Date:

4 June 2005 (Japan)

Genre:

Comedy | Romance

Tagline:

A True Love Story

Plot Keywords:

Bulletin Board System | First Sexual Experience | Internet | Train | Based On Novel

Cast

Takayuki Yamada	...	Densha otoko
Miki Nakatani	...	Hermes
Ryoko Kuninaka	...	Rika
Eita	...	Hirofumi
Kuranosuke Sasaki	...	Hisashi
Tae Kimura	...	Michiko
Yoshinori Okada	...	Yoshiga
Naomi Nishida	...	Hermes's friend
Ren Osugi	...	Middle-aged man in train
rest of cast listed alphabetically:
Hiroki Miyake	...	Tamura
Makoto Sakamoto	...	Muto
Momoko Shimizu	...	Schoolgirl on the train

Also Known As:

Train Man (International: English title)

Runtime:

Japan:105 min | USA:101 min

Country:

Japan

Language:

Japanese

Color:

Color

Aspect Ratio:

1.85 : 1

Sound Mix:

Dolby Digital

Certification:

Taiwan:GP | South Korea:12 | Japan:G | Hong Kong:I | Japan:U

Company:

Toho Company

Trivia:

Based on a true story.

Movie Connections:

References Kôkaku kidôtai (1995)

A Slashdot love story

Speaking as a member of the computer geek community, this film accurately portrays what it's like to be today's connected computer geek with absolutely no social skills. ...and what it's like for them to date someone from outside that community of geeks. (Wow; I'm glad I'm more socialized now than I was). This reminds me a lot of the love stories found in anime cartoons. Great acting, great plot twists. But the characters are not deep enough for this to be a truly great movie that would merit a 10/10 vote. This is a movie with real actors on the screen, not cartoons, but the characters are as two-dimensional as a cartoon. Oh; I need an obligatory 10th line: Um, I was surprised I couldn't find it on Netflix. (that should do it...)