“Kamikaze Taxi” isn’t the film you think it is. It starts out with documentary style footage and then it slides into feature narrative and stays there. This format shift is perhaps a clue as to what kind of movie you are really sitting down to, which isn’t a yakuza film, a road movie or a documentary. It’s a unique mashup of style and story that takes you on an odd yet unique journey for two hours and twenty minutes into the life of two Japanese men on the run.
Kamikaze Taxi is screening at the 17th New York Asian Film Festival
The story that “Kamikaze Taxi” tells is about a Japanese man recently returned to Japan, having lived most of his life in Peru. Working as a taxi driver, Kantake (Kôji Yakusho), is a man out of touch with his Japanese heritage. He meets a young punk,...
Kamikaze Taxi is screening at the 17th New York Asian Film Festival
The story that “Kamikaze Taxi” tells is about a Japanese man recently returned to Japan, having lived most of his life in Peru. Working as a taxi driver, Kantake (Kôji Yakusho), is a man out of touch with his Japanese heritage. He meets a young punk,...
- 7/12/2018
- by Matt Ward
- AsianMoviePulse
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