“A True Love Story”
Train Man
6.2
33 votes·2005
·1h 45m
·MovieComedyRomance
Overview
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.
Keywords
based on true storyromancetrainsocial anxietyotakuotaku culturedensha otoko
Cast
Takayuki Yamada
Densha otoko
Miki Nakatani
Hermes
Ryoko Kuninaka
Rika
Eita Nagayama
Hirofumi
Kuranosuke Sasaki
Hisashi
Tae Kimura
Michiko
Yoshinori Okada
Yoshiga
Ren Osugi
Middle-aged man in train
Hiroki Miyake
Tamura
Makoto Sakamoto
Muto
Momoko Shimizu
Schoolgirl on the train
Naomi Nishida
Hermes's friend
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