Hankyu Railways - A 15-minute Miracle
- IMDb link: 1703814
- IMDb rating: 6.6 (263 votes)
- Genres: Comedy
- Director: Yoshishige Miyake
- Cast: Kaho Minami, Nobuko Miyamoto, Erika Toda, Kasumi Arimura, Ryohei Suzuki, Mana Ashida and others
- Release date: 29 Apr 2011
- Release year: 2011
- Runtime: 119 minutes
- Country: Japan
Plot:
"Hankyu Densha" follows the lives of various people who commute on Hankyu Railway's Imazu Line - connecting the cities of Nishinomiya and Takarazuka in Hyogo prefecture. One of the commuters is Shoko (Miki Nakatani), an office worker in her 30s who lost her boyfriend to a younger colleague. There's also a college student (Erika Toda) who is so easily persuaded by her no good boyfriend. Other commuters include a grandmother & granddaughter, a house wife, a female high school student, and a female otaku college student.
Although the train ride takes only 15 minutes between two stations, the lives of these commuters are changed as they interact with each other ..