Official Website
www.tbs.co.jp/ryusei_wagon
Broadcast
Sundays, 9.00 – 9.54 p.m. from 18 January 2015
Station
TBS
Story
“There are a series of crossroads in life … but at that time, I wasn’t aware of anything. I remained oblivious. Then all of a sudden, I was face with the outcome.” In the past six months, Nagata Kazuo has been told that he is being laid off, he has received divorce papers from his wife Miyoko, while their son Hiroki has failed his junior high school entrance exam and will not stop violence at home. And in Kazuo’s heart, he is still at odds with his father, Tadao, who has end-stage cancer. Father and son are unable to reconcile right to the very end. with a wife who has left home, a son who is broken and a father near death, Kazuo keeps asking himself “How did it come to this?” over and over again. He had always wanted to be a good father unlike his father. As Kazuo sits on a bench in front of a train station wondering where he has gone wrong and thinking that he is better off dying, a wine-coloured wagon suddenly appears. The person driving it is Hashimoto Yoshiaki who should have died five years ago. His son Kenta riding with him should be dead too. Kazuo boards this mysterious wagon as if he were drawn inside. In the course of going round to important places of the past, he starts to understand how things went wrong with his wife and son. The graphic reality agitates and chafes at him. Returning to Ueno Station of one year ago, a scene which is still fresh in Kazuo’s mind plays back. It is of his wife walking with a young man. Then a disconcerted Kazuo is joined by Tadao, who is the same age as him this time, and they end up travelling together. Tadao, whom Kazuo is supposed to abhor is neither his actual father nor friend, but lives next door as a close friend who is practically family. This starts to put many things in context for Kazuo although he gets pushed around by Tadao … …
Characters
Coming soon!
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Tagged: Kagawa Teruyuki, Nishijima Hidetoshi, Ryusei Wagon, Yoshioka Hidetada
