Train Man : Densha Otoko (2005)

fun show

I saw some of this show at a con one year and though it be fun to watch. I must say after watching it. It's very much like the Japanese to make a show like this. I enjoy it and would remand it to any body. September 17, 2008

Densha Otoko: great film about contemporary Japanese youth

This was an awesome movie. I teach a basic high school Japanese course and had been looking for a film about contemporary young people in Japan
without anything sexual or violent. I was worried at first if they would find it too romantic but surprisingly they were riveted from the opening scene, in Akihabara, the Tokyo Electronics district. The film gives lots of insight into the habits, language, and social lives of Japanese twenty-somethings. It was a bonus that the film's characters are mostly "otaku", geeks, like my students, so they could really relate to the characters' difficulties interacting with live humans in the real world, even as they fluently socialize with each other online.
Good flick, lots of fun, emotional at the end. It's in Japanese, so you need subtitles if you're not fluent. June 10, 2008

Fun movie, very enjoyable

Ran across this movie as a flyer in another Japanese movie. The story is interesting and fun - a little schmaltzy. I recommend it. April 19, 2008

fun movie for anyone

this is a really fun movie to watch. i've never seen a movie quite like this.

as far as the dvd extras go. they have a bunch of background info explaining japanese culture around where this movie takes place. December 25, 2007

Well Done English Translation (Subtitles)

Being a native speaker of the Japanese language, I watched the film with Japanese voice and English subtitle. Often, with other movies, I find myself frustrated with translation being not so accurate, but this film didn't irritate me. It is impossible for translation to convey the exact context, and therefore one can achieve the BEST possible translation. I say that the best possible translation effort was made with a success in this film. The quality of translation matters when one watches foreign films.

As a comedy I think this film is entertaining. They used this film as one of films shown for Japanese Film Festival in Miami, and I could see other audiences having good time in the theater. I thought the film conveys the culture of Japanese high-tech communication in a proper fashion. Although I am not exactly a nerd (some of my friends say I am, but I insist that I am not), I have had an experience a few years ago where I had to receive support from a certain group of anonymous Japanese persons online, who understood a very specific issue, and I think my overcoming that issue had a lot to do with the online support from people I didn't even know their names.

It is true that Japanese online community has unbelievably strong bond and influences to us in a way that wasn't so before Internet came along. That I can say for sure from my own experience.

November 18, 2007

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