is a 1999

1999 in film

The year 1999 in film involved several noteworthy events and has been called "The Year That Changed Movies". Several significant feature films, including Stanley Kubrick's final film Eyes Wide Shut, Pedro Almodóvar's first Oscar-winning film All About My Mother, science fiction The Matrix, Deep...

 Japan

Japan

Japan is an island nation in East Asia. Located in the Pacific Ocean, it lies to the east of the Sea of Japan, China, North Korea, South Korea and Russia, stretching from the Sea of Okhotsk in the north to the East China Sea and Taiwan in the south...

ese film directed by Yasuo Furuhata

Yasuo Furuhata

Yasuo Furuhata is a Japanese film director. He won the 2000 Japan Academy Prize for Director of the Year for Poppoya.-Filmography:* Eki * Izakaya Chōji...

. It was Japan's submission to the 72nd Academy Awards

72nd Academy Awards

The 72nd Academy Awards ceremony took place at Los Angeles' Shrine Auditorium, and was Billy Crystal's seventh time hosting the Awards. The ceremony attracted 46.53 million viewers, an audience 3.7% bigger than the previous ceremony.The Academy Awards ceremony was dominated by two films...

 for the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film

Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film

The Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film is one of the Academy Awards of Merit, popularly known as the Oscars, handed out annually by the U.S.-based Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences...

, but was not accepted as a nominee. It was chosen as Best Film at the Japan Academy Prize ceremony.

Synopsis

A railway stationmaster at a dying end-of-the-line village in Hokkaido is haunted by memories of his dead wife and daughter. When the railroad line is scheduled to be closed, he is offered a job at a hotel, but he is emotionally unable to part with his career as a railroader. His life takes a turn when he meets a young woman with an interest in trains who resembles his daughter.

Cast

• Ken Takakura
  Ken Takakura
  , born , is a Japanese actor best known for his brooding style and the stoic presence he brings to his roles.Takakura gained his streetwise swagger and tough-guy persona watching yakuza turf battles over the lucrative black market and racketeering in postwar Fukuoka...
  
  : Otomatsu Satō
• Shinobu Ōtake: Shizue Satō
• Ryōko Hirosue
  Ryoko Hirosue
  is a Japanese actress and pop star, best known in the West for her roles in the Luc Besson-produced Wasabi and the Academy Award-winning Japanese film Departures. She also starred in a comedy series Yasuko to Kenji in 2008.- Early life :...
  
  : Yukiko Satō
• Hidetaka Yoshioka
  Hidetaka Yoshioka
  ', is a Japanese actor known for his performance in several movies as a child and lately the award-winning TV drama Dr. Koto Shinryojo. He notably played the part of Tora-san's little nephew in the "Otoko wa Tsurai yo" film series, and he appeared in Akira Kurosawa's "Rhapsody in August" and...
  
  : Hideo Sugiura
• Masanobu Ando
  Masanobu Ando
  is a Japanese actor and director.For his second film, in 1996, he won the Film Academy of Japan's Best New Actor Award, starring in Takeshi Kitano's Kids Return....
  
  : Toshiyuki Yoshioka
• Ken Shimura
  Ken Shimura
  , is a Japanese comedian and actor. He co-starred with Masashi Tashiro, Nobuyoshi Kuwano in the Japanese variety show "Ken Shimura no Bakatono-sama"....
  
  : Hajime Yoshioka
• Tomoko Naraoka
  Tomoko Naraoka
  is a Japanese actress and narrator. The daughter of a painter, she was born in Komagome, Hongō , in what was then the city of Tokyo, Japan. She graduated from Joshibi University of Art and Design....
  
  : Mune Katō
• Yoshiko Tanaka
  Yoshiko Tanaka
  was a Japanese actress. She was also famous as a member of the pop group Candies. While a member of Candies, Tanaka was known by the nickname Still at the height of its popularity, the group disbanded in 1978. Tanaka was also the sister-in-law of the well-known actress Masako Natsume.Tanaka was...
  
  : Akiko Sugiura
• Nenji Kobayashi
  Nenji Kobayashi
  is a Japanese actor. He won the award for best supporting actor at the 23rd Japan Academy Prize for Poppoya.-Filmography:* Captain Ultra * The Doberman Cop * Hokuriku Proxy War * Message from Space...
  
  : Senji Sugiura

See also

• Cinema of Japan
  Cinema of Japan
  The has a history that spans more than 100 years. Japan has one of the oldest and largest film industries in the world – as of 2009 the fourth largest by number of feature films produced. Movies have been produced in Japan since 1897, when the first foreign cameramen arrived...
  
  
• List of Japanese submissions for the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film

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