Train Man (2005)
Original title: 電車男
Train Man is a 2005 Japanese-language comedy movie directed by Shosuke Murakami, with a running time of 1h 45m. It stars Takayuki Yamada, Miki Nakatani and Ryoko Kuninaka.
The purportedly true story of a 23-year-old otaku (Japanese geek) who intervened when a drunk man was harassing a woman on a train. The otaku ultimately started dating with her and chronicled his event and his dates with the woman (who became known as "Hermès") on the Japanese mega-BBS 2channel.
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Cast
- Takayuki Yamada as Densha otoko
- Miki Nakatani as Hermes
- Ryoko Kuninaka as Rika
- Eita Nagayama as Hirofumi
- Kuranosuke Sasaki as Hisashi
- Tae Kimura as Michiko
- Yoshinori Okada as Yoshiga
- Ren Osugi as Middle-aged man in train
- Hiroki Miyake as Tamura
- Makoto Sakamoto as Muto
- Momoko Shimizu as Schoolgirl on the train
- Naomi Nishida as Hermes's friend