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Tokyo Taxi

14th(2009) Korean Cinema Today

Urbanization · Road Movie · Music/Dance  

  • CountryKorea,Japan
  • Production Year2009
  • Running Time76min
  • Format HD
  • 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.
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  • Director KIM Tai-sik 김태식
  • Producer SAIMI Yasumasa, KIM Hyo-jeong 김효정
  • Cast YAMADA Masashi, YAMAJAKI Hajime, YOU Ha-na 유하나
  • Screenplay KIM Yang-hee 김양희, KIM Tai-sik 김태식
  • Cinematography JANG Sun-bong 장선봉
  • Editor KIM So-yun 김소연
  • Sound SJEONG sean
  • Music IKENAGA Shoji
  • Production Company Film Line
    4F., Myungdong Bldg., 66-8 Nonhyun-dong, Kangnam-gu, Seoul 135-816 Korea
    filmline@filmline.co.kr