Ginga Tetsudou no Chichi

[Machine Translation] No matter what happened, he believed in his son and we all lived together. Kenji Miyazawa is still loved around the world for his one and only poems and stories. Kenji Miyazawa is still loved around the world for his one-of-a-kind poems and stories. The film adaptation of "The Father of the Galactic Railroad" (written by Yoshiki Kadoi), which won the 158th Naoki Prize, is directed by Izuru Narushima, the director of "The Cicada of the Eighth Day" and "Inochinocho no Tokuba". Kenji Miyazawa's father, Seijiro, is played by Koji Yakusho. Masaki Sugata plays Kenji. --Kenji is the eldest son of the wealthy Miyazawa family, which runs a pawn shop. He is carefully raised as the heir to the family fortune, but he firmly rejects the family business as "bullying the weak" and becomes obsessed with farming and artificial jewelry, which drives his father, Masajiro, and mother, Ichi, crazy. He also runs away from home to Tokyo to devote himself to religion. Meanwhile, Kenji's younger sister Toshi, who is his best friend, falls ill with tuberculosis, an incurable disease at the time. To cheer her up, Kenji continues to write stories and read them to her with all his heart. However, his wish is not granted, and Toshi passes away on a sleeting day. Without Toshi, I can't write anything," lamented Kenji, "I will be the best reader of Kenji Miyazawa! I will be the best reader of Kenji Miyazawa!

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何があっても息子を信じて、みんなで生きた。あなたは家族の希望だから── 唯一無二の詩や物語で今もなお世界中から愛されている宮沢賢治。そんな賢治が「ダメ息子だった!」という視点から賢治への無償の愛を貫いた家族を描き、第158回直木賞を受賞した「銀河鉄道の父」(著: 門井慶喜)を『八日目の蝉』『いのちの停車場』の成島出監督が映画化。宮沢賢治の父・政次郎を演じるのは役所広司。賢治役に菅田将暉。――質屋を営む裕福な宮沢家の長男に生まれた賢治は、跡取りとして大事に育てられるが、家業を「弱い者いじめ」だと断固として拒み、農業や人造宝石に夢中になって、父・政次郎と母・イチを振り回す。さらに、宗教に身を捧げると東京へ家出してしまう。そんな中、賢治の一番の理解者である妹のトシが、当時は不治の病だった結核に倒れる。賢治はトシを励ますために、一心不乱に物語を書き続け読み聞かせる。だが、願いは叶わず、みぞれの降る日にトシは息をを引き取る。「トシがいなければ何も書けない」と慟哭する賢治に、「私が宮沢賢治の一番の読者になる!」と、再び筆を執らせたのは政次郎だった──。

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