{"id":2129910,"date":"2025-11-02T04:57:13","date_gmt":"2025-11-02T04:57:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/?p=2129910"},"modified":"2025-11-02T04:57:13","modified_gmt":"2025-11-02T04:57:13","slug":"tokyo-taxi-review-a-heartfelt-and-sappy-japanese-crowd-pleaser-carried-by-a-veteran-pair-of-seniors","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/tokyo-taxi-review-a-heartfelt-and-sappy-japanese-crowd-pleaser-carried-by-a-veteran-pair-of-seniors\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Tokyo Taxi\u2019 Review: A Heartfelt and Sappy Japanese Crowd-Pleaser Carried by a Veteran Pair of Seniors"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div role=\"presentation\">Some kind of record must have been broken in the making of <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"ipc-md-link ipc-md-link--entity\" href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt35521394\/\">Tokyo Taxi<\/a>, which not only marks the 91st feature of 94-year-old Japanese director <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"ipc-md-link ipc-md-link--entity\" href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/name\/nm0945282\/\">Y\u014dji Yamada<\/a>, but also something like the 160th screen appearance of the film\u2019s 84-year-old star, Chieko Basho.<\/p>\n<p>To say that these two know what they\u2019re doing would be an understatement. Nor would it be an exaggeration to say that they\u2019re probably used to working together, having teamed up on dozens upon dozens of Tora-san comedy movies made between 1969 and 1995. (Yamada actually set a Guinness World Record when Tora-san became cinema\u2019s longest running franchise featuring the same star \u2014 <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"ipc-md-link ipc-md-link--entity\" href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/name\/nm0040910\/\">Kiyoshi Atsumi<\/a>, who died in 1996.)<\/p>\n<p>The director and Baisho\u2019s century-and-a-half of combined experience is certainly on display in this slick, senior-skewed crowd-pleaser, about a beleaguered cabbie taking an aging passenger on one last ride through her hometown metropolis, during which she reflects on&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><em> \u2018 The preceding article may include information circulated by third parties \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n<p><em> \u2018 Some details of this article were extracted from the following source www.imdb.com \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Some kind of record must have been broken in the making of Tokyo Taxi, which not only marks the 91st feature of 94-year-old Japanese director Y\u014dji Yamada, but also something like the 160th screen appearance of the film\u2019s 84-year-old star, Chieko Basho. To say that these two know what they\u2019re doing would be an understatement. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2129911,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[25177],"tags":[25538,31714,21751,22556,21993,22860,21912,21738,24141,22205,21913],"class_list":["post-2129910","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-celebrities","tag-actors","tag-actresses","tag-celebrities","tag-directors","tag-films","tag-hollywood","tag-movies","tag-news","tag-stars","tag-television","tag-tv"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/\u2018Tokyo-Taxi-Review-A-Heartfelt-and-Sappy-Japanese-Crowd-Pleaser-Carried.png","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2129910","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2129910"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2129910\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2129912,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2129910\/revisions\/2129912"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2129911"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2129910"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2129910"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2129910"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}