“Ghost Town review – the phantoms and lost souls haunting a Japanese city after the 2011 earthquake”

Key points

• A nocturnal taxi odyssey through Kamaishi echoes the 2011 earthquake and tsunami.
• Conversations drift to grief, loss, and the belief in phantoms and revenants.
• Drivers claim to have picked up phantom fares who vanish from the back seat.
• Dreams and sightings blur the line between the dead and the living.
• The film presents Kamaishi as a living mausoleum with aging residents.