KAMIKAZE TAXI Asia

Kantake is a cab driver raised in Peru who
still speaks Japanese pidgin style. He is to
become the third side of a unique dramatic
triangle, conjoining reps of three social
groups that rarely crisscross: Japan’s
150,000 foreign-raised citizens, its
90,000 yakuza and, according to an
opening title, “a few politicians who distort
historical facts.” … (T]rainee yakuza
Tatsuo is given a chance to prove himself
by pimping for an aging politician. But
[his prostitute] Tama is badly beaten up,
prompting angry Tatsuo to go solo early in
his career. Gathering a group of kids his
own age, he leads a chaotic robbery on
the politico’s home … The neophyte gang is
soon tracked down by its vicious boss,
Animal, but Tatsuo escapes with the
money and sets out on an odyssey in
which, by chance, he hooks up with cabby
Kantake. -Derek Elley, Variety