On the Road : A Document
MovieTitle | ドキュメント 路上 |
User score | 5.3 |
Release date | Jan 1, 1964 |
Genre | Documentary |
Director | Noriaki Tsuchimoto |
Production country | Japan |
Production companies | Toyo Cinema |
Run time | 54 min. |
Japanese documentary from 1964 directed by Noriaki Tsuchimoto. The film focuses on the taxi drivers of Tokyo in the year before the Tokyo Olympics and the difficulties they face: construction obstructing traffic, poor working conditions, numerous accidents, and bad pay. It becomes a critique of a changing and modernizing urban Japan.