A story about a man who serves the railway the whole life.
A story about his life with a lot of miseries such as the death of his daughter and wife.
However , even when his wife was dying , he was still on his guard.
Nothing can change a railway worker to abandan his position , even if that’s a most important thing in his family .
And that’s what a real railway worker.
The movie is not well filmed , while the pictures are not clear enough , to say nothing of the extremely low cost . All the story happens in a small station called "Horomai" , one spur of "Sapporo" , in Hokkaido , a place cold enough . In my humble opinion , such film can be easily made with in a day or two , with few people and a train–KI-HA12 , which may be only found in the museum . That’s enough , nothing more.
What a man really means?
What a man really does?
It is hard for us to answer these two questions , but at least we know that That’s a man , a man who loves his wife and daughter in his heart , though not well expressed by his words or actions .