TOKYO UBER BLUES
Director: Taku Aoyagi Run Time: 93 min. Release Year: 2021 Language: Japanese
Director Taku Aoyagi, who has lost his job in his hometown of Yamanashi, goes to Tokyo without knowing right or left and starts delivering bicycles. What gradually came to light under the state of emergency was the real problem of modern Japan that was revealed by the corona wreck. The people he met in the city where the director himself ran around as a bicycle deliveryman. What does it mean to work? What does it mean to live a new life? A documentary film that “delivers” from a realistic experience and perspective is born.
“great to see Tokyo by bike, solidarity approached by our one man show, and a cathartic spiral into a capitalism induced manic episode” kolby9k, letterboxd