MIDNIGHT COWBOYS (HO CHI MINH VS TOKYO)

Follow the driver

An episode from the series TAXI TO ASIA

Synopsis

Ho Chi Minh.
This post-communist city is trying to rival Bangkok and won’t let anything hinder its accelerating economy. Our taxi driver, Cat, represents the new face of HCM: people working hard and playing even harder in a true consumerist style. Cat is the know-it-all who takes us to the best-kept secrets of modern-day Saigon.

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Tokyo.
Anzai is a cabby who loves jazz. He started a coveted jazz cruise in a bid to survive in Japan’s woeful economy. The working pressure on a Tokyo cabby is so great that suicides are common. Anzai tells us stories of Japan’s lost generation amid soulful music.