Taxi Blues (2005) [Trailer]

Taxi Blues (2005) Director: Choiha Dong-ha In Seoul, there are 70 thousand taxies including 20 thousand corporate taxies and 40 thousand private taxies threading across the city. In most cases, a taxi driver works 12 hour shifts and must complete 20 to 30 trips a day in order to take home the smallest of earnings after paying 80 to 100 dollars to the taxi company. The taxi drivers go to every nook and cranny of the city with a variety of passengers at their side or in the back seat. One summer I became a taxi driver, driving one of Seoul’s 70 thousand taxies / Director Choiha Dong Ha sings the cab-driving blues in his indie documentary Taxi Blues, winner of Best Asian Feature Documentary Film at the 2006 Syracuse International Film & Video Festival. There are 70 thousand taxis in Seoul, and Choiha, whose previous works include Patriot Game (2001) and High Hill (2003), began driving one of them one summer. Setting a camera inside his cab, he candidly captures the daily life and experiences of the cabbi amid the nonstop bustle of the weary and the air of pessimism hanging over the city. Shot on video with first-person narration, Taxi Blues provides a striking profile of the sights and sounds of Seoul through revealing conversations with the very different people who board the same taxi.

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Daily Motion | May 14, 2009

Tags:. .cranny. .cabbi. .pessimism. .bustle. .weary