History

영화 정보

World Premiere Tokyo Taxi

Korean Cinema Today

Urbanization · Road Movie · Music/Dance

  • Country / RegionKorea,Japan
  • Production Year2009
  • Running Time76min
  • FormatHD
  • ColorCOLOR
Program Note
Ryo, the lead singer of a band scheduled to perform in Seoul, is terrified of airplanes. So after sending the rest of the band off, he decides to take a taxi from Tokyo to Seoul. The road to Seoul is a non-stop series of surprises; When his Japanese taxi arrives in Busan, the local taxi drivers are surprised and try to race them; they get swept into the middle of training for the reserve forces; also meet strange people along the way. Ryo finally arrives in Seoul only to find that the concert had been canceled and his colleagues had already returned to Japan. His taxi gone, how will Ryo return home? Director Kim Tai-sik makes the taxi a central prop in his film, as he did in his previous film, [Driving with My Wife’s Lover]. It has become a trademark of Kim Tai-sik’s, and will inspire the audience to speculate its next move. (LEE Sang-yong)
Director
Director
KIM Tai-sik
Kim worked for a while as a line producer for TV and advertisement productions in Japan, Australia, and Hong Kong until he worked as assistant director for the feature [Kazoku Cinema] (1998). His feature debut [Driving with My wife’s Lover] (2007) was presented at Sundance Film Festival and Rotterdam International Film Festival. His second feature [Tokyo Taxi] (2010) is said to be the exemplary case of Korean-Japanese co-production.
Credit
  • Director
    KIM Tai-sik
  • ProducerSAIMI Yasumasa
    KIM Hyo-jeong
  • CastYAMADA Masashi
    YAMAJAKI Hajime
    YOU Ha-na
  • ScreenplayKIM Yang-hee
    KIM Tai-sik
  • CinematographyJANG Sun-bong
  • EditorKIM So-yun
  • SoundSJEONG sean
  • MusicIKENAGA Shoji
  • Production CompanyFilm Line
    filmline@filmline.co.kr
Photo
BNK부산은행
제네시스
네스프레소
한맥
네이버
CGV
파라다이스 호텔 부산
한국거래소
드비치골프클럽 주식회사
트립닷컴
아이앱 스튜디오
두산트리븐센텀
팔라티움
Ministry of Culture, Sports and Tourism
Busan Metropolitan City
Korean Film Council
BUSAN CINEMA CENTER