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Tokyo Uber Blues

Tokyo Uber Blues

2021•1h 33m
Documentary

Shot with a mix of smartphones and GoPros, filmmaker Taku Aoyagi takes us on his daily bike rides as an Uber Eats worker. But pedaling on Tokyo’s deserted streets, delivering boba tea to cloistered condos, he starts to wonder… what was it that Ken Loach said about the Uberization of society? And what does gig-work offer an unemployed young person with student debt?

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Production

Nondelaico

Language

JA

Status

Released

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Cast

Taku Aoyagi

Self

Kazuki Iimuro

Self

Tsuchi Kano

Self

Yuki Saito

Self

Hidehiko Watarai

Self

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