Released in 1999, "Railroad" was released in Japan for six consecutive months, and won nine awards at the Japan Academy Awards that year, including Best Picture and Best Actor.
Railway officer Otomatsu has touched countless people with his love and persistence in his profession, and the line "I don't wave the flag, who will guide the train" has also become one of The classic screen images of Ken Takakura. After 20 years, it will seem inappropriate to look back on this perseverance again.
In 1999, "RailroadMan" lost his youth but stuck to it
Xiaobian felt that from the moment of shooting, what he wanted to pursue was to travel through 20 years of time, and the station disappeared, but the spirit did not disappear.
Behind the ordinary life of Station Manager Yisong, what really touched us?
It should be like faith, this persistence and integrity of the profession. It is an elegy of the end of the century, a look back at the past 100 years.
Although the film was shot in 1999, it now seems that this emotion is still not outdated and will still be very moving.
For example, every time the train is far away, Takakura Ken will be on the platform, to the back of the train and say: "The signal is normal, the rear is normal", in fact, no one has seen a scene like this, and not to mention that later, the station is deserted, but he is still insisting on such a particularly ritualistic thing.
In this play, the railroad man is obviously a symbol of the spirit of a Japanese professional, and every time the train leaves, the character of Otomatsu will say to the back of the car every time: "There is no abnormality today", including his daughter, when he went to the Meiji Hospital, when his wife went to the hospital alone, he insisted on standing on the platform and saying "there is no abnormality today".
In fact, the most touching thing about the editor is that it has some repetitive parts, repetition constitutes strength, special nostalgia and persistence, this movie has always been interspersed with a song "Tennessee Waltz", this song should be a song of the 70s, a story of the 70s, an emotion of the 20th century, a song of the 70s, so the whole nostalgic atmosphere is particularly strong. Speaking of this song, it should be Takakura Ken's wife, the song she sang, this melody has been laid in the movie.
Ken Takakura has a lot of scenes, and after seeing his character image, he is a silent, unsmiling image, in "Railroad Man", he suddenly sees the little girl for the first time
He had a very, very bright smile, which suddenly shocked me, at that time Takakura Ken was 68 years old, and the purity of his laughter had broken the age, so Xiaobian felt that this laugh was particularly touching.
For Xiaobian, Ken Takakura's adherence and ethics to the profession, Xiaobian may not be able to experience it because he does not feel empathy, but I feel very admired and very respectful.
On the whole, the feeling given to the editor is that he is so insistent on his profession, but in the face of the desolation of the railway station, he still maintains that memory, so persistence, maybe we in today's society lack this persistence and ethics.
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