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The Crowded Train

The Crowded Train

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Status

Released

Release Date

Mar 29, 1957

Runtime

1h 39m

Genres

Comedy, Drama

User Score

67%

Original Title

満員電車

Production Companies

Daiei Film

Director

Kon Ichikawa

Description

Tamio Moroi, a young university graduate, works at a large brewery where he is taught to do nothing but look busy. When his father goes insane, he is told to send money for medical research into the condition. This prompts him to pay his father a visit, leading to a series of mishaps that leaves him at the bottom of the heap in what he once expected to be a promising lifetime career.