Devotion to Railway

Devotion to Railway

1960 · 89 min · ★ 7.0 · Drama

A human drama of crew and passengers on a special express train named “Sakura” from Tokyo to Nagasaki...

Directed by Hideo Sekigawa · Written by Kaneto Shindō

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