Starring: Aaron Chow, Aji Santosa, Corallin Cao, Petrina Fung, Shanty Paredes
Director: Doris Yeung
Running Time: 95 mins
Certificate: NR (US)
Release Date: May 4th 2017 (US Premiere)

Taxi Stories got its US premiere on May 3rd at the Los Angeles Asian Pacific Film Festival. It was certainly a fitting place for the film, which spans across East Asia from Indonesia to Hong Kong and Beijing. Each of those locations is the setting for one of the movie’s three stories.

In Indonesia, a young taxi/bajai driver in Jakarta meets an Aussie woman called Samantha who’s on her gap year. He quickly becomes enamoured with her and hopes he can make her his girlfriend. He is also hired by a Hong Kong visitor to take him on a tour. However, the gay visitor may have ulterior motives – but perhaps not you might expect. [Read more…]