Kamikaze taxi
KAMIKAZE TAXI
KAMIKAZE TAXI ＜インターナショナル・バージョン＞
(c)1994 PONY CANYON INC.
(c)1994 PONY CANYON INC.
(c)1994 PONY CANYON INC.
(c)1994 PONY CANYON INC.
- Release Date
- April, 29th, 1995
- Running Time
- 140 min
- Color
- Color
- Screening Format
- 35mm
- Screening Format with Subtitles
- English (35mm)
[ Directed by ]
[ Produced by ]
[ Cast ]
- YAKUSHO Koji ── KANTAKE Kazumasa
- TAKAHASHI Kazuya ── Tatsuo
- KATAOKA Reiko ── Tama
[ Staff ]
- HARADA Masato ── Screenplay
- SAKAMOTO Yoshitaka ── Cinematography
- MARUYAMA Yuji ── Production Design
- YONEYAMA Kiyoshi ── Sound Recording
- SHIIBARA Noritaka ── Lighting
[ Story ]
A road movie about the adventures of a young yakuza who turns against his gang, and an ethnic Japanese Peruvian. Its writer and director is Harada Masato (Climber's High ).
Tatsuo (Takahashi Kazuo) is a lowly yakuza whose lover is killed by his gang. He plots revenge, but fails and becomes targeted for death. Then he meets Kantake (Yakusho Koji), a Peruvian taxi driver of Japanese ethnicity, and hires him in order to flee his pursuers. As they continue to travel while evading the mob, a strange friendship begins to grow between them.
[ Film Festivals, Awards ]
2015 Tokyo International Film Festival, Japan Now (Director in Focus: Masato Harada)
[ Contact (International) ]
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