Ghost Town review – the phantoms and lost souls haunting a Japanese city after the 2011 earthquake
Conversations between the drivers and their customers drift back towards the cataclysm of the 2011 earthquake and tsunami with an undertow of grief, loss and absence.
Key points
- One taxi rank veteran says he saw spectres….
But at least this time there’s someone in the rear-view mirror to converse with; some drivers claim to have picked up phantom fares who later vanished from the back seat.
The tsunami, it seems, breached the wall between the dead and living, dreams and reality.
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