Last Train Home
2009 · Movie · 85 min · ★ 7.4 · 93% critics
Each year, a migrant-worker family joins a massive holiday rush to travel home, hoping to reconnect after long separations. As factory life, distance, and rising expectations strain their relationships, the journey becomes a test of endurance, dignity, and what it means to build a better future in a rapidly changing China.
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Details
- Original title
- 归途列车
- Years
- 2009
- Release date
- 2009-06-06
- Language
- Chinese
- Runtime
- 85 min
- Critic score
- 93/100
- TMDB rating
- 7.4/10 (70 votes)
About
You’ll likely connect with this if you want an intimate, often tough look at migrant work, family pressure, and holiday travel chaos in modern China; Not for you if you prefer light viewing or faster pacing, like Earth: One Amazing Day.
Pros: eye-opening scale; moving family sacrifices; intense travel scenes | Cons: bleak and stressful; feels long; authenticity doubts
Themes
- china
- home
- train
Cast & crew
- CZ
Changhua Zhang
as Self
- SC
Suqin Chen
as Self
- QZ
Qin Zhang
as Self
Yang Zhang
as Self
- TT
Tingsui Tang
as Self
Directed by Lixin Fan