Movie
Tachigui: The Amazing Lives of the Fast Food Grifters
2006 · 104 min
A dry, essayistic mock-documentary that drifts between deadpan comedy and melancholy, rewarding patience with strange, quietly haunting images and ideas.
- Directed by
- Mamoru Oshii
- Genres
- Animation, Drama, Comedy
- Starring
- Mako Hyodo, Koichi Yamadera, Shinji Higuchi
- Tagline
- Eating on the street without paying. The artistry of the Fast Food Grifters. So much is in the dark and left unsaid.
- Overview
- Tachigui retells Japan's history from 1945 to 21st century through the feats of self-proclaimed dine and dash professionals - the Fast Food Grifters are the phantoms that rise and fall with the shifting diet-styles. They are the dissenting heroes who carved their names on the dark side of dietary culture with their glare. Now their legend revives, strong as ever...
- How it feels
- Satirical, absurd, cynical and melancholic. Measured and demanding.
- About
- Class, identity, media, rebellion
- Content
- Mild violence, sexual content and language. No gore.
- Note
- Written by AI, so it can be wrong. Full breakdown
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- Directed by
- Mamoru Oshii
- Genres
- Animation, Drama, Comedy
- Starring
- Mako Hyodo, Koichi Yamadera, Shinji Higuchi
