Tachigui: The Amazing Lives of the Fast Food Grifters

Tachigui: The Amazing Lives of the Fast Food Grifters (2006)

立喰師列伝

Eating on the street without paying. The artistry of the Fast Food Grifters. So much is in the dark and left unsaid.

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...

Date of release
2006-04-08
TMDB
6.5 / 10 (15)
Runtime
1h 44m
Genres
Animation, Drama, Comedy
Director
Mamoru Oshii

Casting

Interesting facts

Tachiguishi-Retsuden is a 2006 Japanese animated comedy film directed by Japanese filmmaker Mamoru Oshii, who also wrote the eponymous novel on which the film was based. Both works are part of the Kerberos Saga. Live-action film and manga adaptations were produced few months later in Japan.

Production

Shoji Kawamori: Famous for Macross Plus, etc.

Kenji Kawai: Famous composer of Mamoru Oshii feature films (StrayDog, Patlabor the movie 2, GITS, Avalon) and WARP/Sega video games (Enemy Zero, Deep Fear), etc.

Kenji Kamiyama: Famous director of Ghost in the Shell: Stand Alone Complex TV series, etc.

Kaito Kisshoji (吉祥寺怪人): Moongaze Ginji (月見の銀二, Tsukimi no Ginji)

Mako Hyodo (兵頭まこ): Foxy Croquette O-Gin (ケツネコロッケのお銀, Ketsune Krocket no Ogin)

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