Yamada's latest work Tokyo Taxi, based on the French film Driving Madeleine, has been selected as the TIFF Centerpiece film.

I just got back from a trip to Tokyo. Like most business trips it involved a lot of time in airplanes, hotels, taxis, and meeting rooms. It was the taxi, though, that was the most interesting for me.

TOKYO – Very few countries deliver better service than Japan: in shops, in restaurants, or in taxis. It’s called “Omotenashi” and translates roughly as hospitality — or offering customers unreserved ...

Taxis in Japan have some unique quirks. The rear-side passenger door opens and closes on its own, for example, and you’ll almost always find lace doilies on the parcel shelf underneath the rear window ...

An image of Sadako will appear in the window of the vehicle, and there will be AR jumpscares throughout. For example, Sadako may jump out at you from a monitor. As this is part of a promotion for ...

TOKYO -- Tokyo’s streetscape is about to get its biggest makeover in two decades, and just in time for the 2020 Olympics. Toyota Motor Corp. says it will launch a next-generation taxi for Japan in ...

With 91 films over 64 years - including the beloved 'Tora-san' series and Oscar-nominated 'The Twilight Samurai' - Yamada ...

Yamada Yoji to receive Lifetime Achievement Award at Tokyo Film Festival's 38th edition where latest film 'Tokyo Taxi' ...