Overheard at a screening of KAMIKAZE TAXI: one audience member remarked to his date, "Now you know why editors win Oscars." Flabby extraneous scenes make this expose on Japanese society as ungainly as a 500-lb. sumo wrestler in a hammock.
Tatsuo (Takahashi Kazuya) is a rising hoodlum in a Tokyo yakuza mob, but he's disgusted by the corruption he sees when the syndicate introduces him to their political patron Ishida (Kenishi Yajima), a member of the Diet and a former kamikaze pilot who whitewashes Japanese war atrocities, and in
private sadistically beats the high-class prostitutes Tatsuo delivers. When one girl is murdered, Tatsuo and friends impulsively...
Released:
1995
Rated:
NR
Length:
170 mins