Original Title: Kamikaze takushî AKA: Kamikaze Taxi

Director: Masato Harada Writers: Masato Harada Stars: Kōji Yakusho, Kazuya Takahashi, Reiko Kataoka, Mickey Curtis

Release year: 1995 Runtime: 2:49:07 (h:m:s) Language: Japanese Subtitles: English Genre: Action, Crime, Drama

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Tatsuo (Kazuya Takahashi), a young foot soldier in the yakuza, seeks revenge when his prostitute girlfriend (Reiko Kataoka) dies after a session with a high-ranking Japanese senator with a taste for torture. He sets out on a "kamikaze" mission to kill his bosses and the politician, who promptly put a hit out on him. Along the way, Tatsuo procures the services of Peruvian-Japanese taxi driver Kantake (Kōji Yakusho), who has recently returned to Japan after living in South America for decades and is struggling to cope with poverty & the prejudices of native-born Japanese. The two form an unlikely bond, and Kantake proves to be an invaluable ally in Tatsuo's quest to take out the mob, the senator & everyone else who gets in his way.

This is the full, uncut, original Japanese version of the film