The Drudgery Train

The poster promises a rebellion, but the film delivers two slackers posing as rogues while barely leaving the station. Kanta, a dropout with more swagger than plan, finds an unlikely moral compass in Shoji, a provincial sweetheart who mistakes kindness for a substitute for ambition. Its greatest trick is making unemployment feel like a personality quirk.

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Nobuhiro Yamashita directed The Drudgery Train in 2012. See Nobuhiro Yamashita's full filmography, where to start with Nobuhiro Yamashita, or where to go after you've seen everything by Nobuhiro Yamashita.

The Drudgery Train was released in 2012 (JA original-language production), with a runtime of 114 minutes.