Taxi journeys through Kamaishi confront grief after Japan’s 2011 tsunami

Katharine Round’s documentary follows taxi drivers and passengers through the coastal Japanese city of Kamaishi, where conversations return to the grief and absence left by the 2011 earthquake and tsunami. Stories of phantom passengers and other apparitions give the film a supernatural dimension, while its quiet night-time journeys explore how people live with loss.

The film also places those memories in a town where older residents lament the lack of young people, making Kamaishi feel like a place shaped by both disaster and decline. Journalist Shiori Itō provides a thread between the interviews, which include drivers’ personal accounts of past mistakes and regrets. *Ghost Town* opens in UK and Irish cinemas on 6 November.