Lee Joon-young Joins Tokyo Taxi by Director Yoji Yamada..Working with Takuya Kimura and Yuyu Aoi
Jul 08, 2025
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Lee Joon-young's casting and filming were carried out in top secret. In particular, Lee Joon-young surprised everyone by officially announcing the casting with all the filming already completed.
'Tokyo Taxi' is based on the French film 'UNE BELLE COURCE', which was very popular in Japan in 2022, and it is a touching human drama that depicts the regret, reconciliation, and miracle of life facing at the end of life against the backdrop of Tokyo, which is changing with the passage of the times.
The film features Japan's leading top star actors Takuya Kimura, Chieko Baisho, Yuu Aoi, and Takaya Sakoda. On top of that, Lee Joon-young, a representative actor in Korea, joins as a key role, drawing attention from global fans.
In the play, Lee Joon-young plays the role of Smire (Baisho Chieko)'s first love as a young man 'Kim Young-ki', and performs a deep emotional bond with Aoi Yuu.
As Lee Joon-young recently showed an emotional performance boasting extreme immersion in various works, hot questions are being raised about what new transformation he will show in his first Japanese movie appearance 'Tokyo Taxi'. In particular, Lee Joon-young, who will make his first Japanese film debut with 'Tokyo Taxi', will expand his career beyond Korea to the world and expand his position as a leading actor' around the world.
Lee Joon-young said, `Thanks to Yamada's emotion-oriented directing, I was able to naturally immerse myself in the character. It was a short shoot, but it was a very strong experience"It's a great honor to be with great actors in my first Japanese movie." "I hope the audience can feel the warmth of people through this work," he added.
Director Yoji Yamada is called a living witness in the history of contemporary Japanese cinema, directing numerous works such as 'Men Suffer', 'Musa's Body Pain', 'Donggyeong Family', 'Samurai in Dusk' and 'Family Suffer'. This time, movie fans around the world are looking forward to showing a unique and humane production. In particular, Takuya Kimura is attracting explosive attention in Japan as it is the first reunion in 19 years since 'Musa's body'.
The movie 'Tokyo Taxi' is scheduled to be released nationwide in Japan on November 21.
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