Railroad Man

Otomatsu Sato (Ken Takakura) keeps a stationmaster's post at the last stop of a Hokkaido line, though the village is emptying and the railroad is scheduled to close. A hotel has offered him work, and he can't bring himself to take it. Yasuo Furuhata follows him through the winter as a young woman (Ryoko Hirosue) who looks like his lost daughter arrives, and Otomatsu keeps standing on the platform, still carrying his wife and child.