Kamikaze Taxi

Kamikaze Taxi is a 1995 Japanese action and crime film by director Masato Harada. The film is about Tatsuo Kazuya Takahashi, a gangster and pimp who sends out his only prostitute Reiko Kataoka to service a politician. When she returns beaten, Tatsuos girlfriend complains but is killed by crime boss Animaru Mickey Curtis. Tatsuo seeks revenge as he and his gang vandalize the politicians house and steal money. In retaliation, Tatsuos bosses put a hit out on them. He flees, riding in the taxi driven by a Peruvian Japanese named Kantake Koji Yakusho. The film was shown at the 1995 London Film Festival and actor Mickey Curtis won the Kinema Junpo Award for best supporting actor in 1996 for his work in the film.

Kamikaze Taxi was released in Japan on April 25, 1995. The film was shown at the 1995 London Film Festival.Mickey Curtis won the Kinema Junpo Award for best supporting actor in 1996 for his work in the film. Time magazine stated that the narrative is overly long minutes and lacks cohesion. But the film has an epic lunacy, a satiric darkness. Its neonlit nightscapes and vivid brutality dance, shockand leave the viewer both riveted and repulsed. Variety also commented on the films length, noting Though the film could easily lose a quarter of an hour from a selfindulgent sequence in a grouptherapy clinic, theres actually very little slackness during the 170minute running time. ........

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