The Great Road (1960)

Original title

大いなる旅路

Directed by

Hideo Sekigawa

Genre

drama

Country

Japan

Runtime

1h 35m

Rating

8.0 of 10 from 1 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

The catalogue in 3D

The film shelves have a room of their own that you can walk around in. The cat behind the counter is the AI Catbot, and they pick real films from the same catalogue when you tell them what you feel like watching. Nothing is for sale, here or in there. Go in from here and this film is already out on the counter, with more like it waiting on the shelf next to it.

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How it feels

This film follows a train engineer and his family across 30 years in Iwate Prefecture, Japan. It shows his career from youth through wartime into the postwar era until his retirement from the national railway.

heartfeltnostalgicearnestslow-pacedbittersweetfamily-orientedhistoricalgrounded

What happens

『大いなる旅路』（おおいなるたびじ）は、東映東京撮影所が製作した1960年（昭和35年）公開の日本映画である。国鉄の機関士とその一家の30年にわたる物語を描く。 盛岡を中心とした岩手県を舞台に、とある機関士の、若き日から戦中戦後を経て定年（55歳）で国鉄を退職するまでを描いたもの。 (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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