Scripted series · NHK G
Midnight Taxi
Who's in it
Cast
The principal ensemble across the run of the series.
Kotone Furukawa
Araragi Shoko
32 eps
Aoi Nakamura
Shibasaki Yakumo
32 eps
Marika Ito
Suzuki Reika
32 eps
Momoko Kobayashi
Taira Mei
32 eps
Emi Wakui
Araragi Yayoi
32 eps
Naoto Takenaka
Hirukawa Gen
32 eps
Sayu Kubota
1 eps
Honami Sato
2 eps
Yuri Tsunematsu
2 eps
Itsuji Itao
2 eps
Maho Yamada
2 eps
Shinya Kote
2 eps
Mamoru Hagiwara
2 eps
Kota Yabu
2 eps
Kaito Yoshimura
2 eps
Tatsumi Asa
1 eps
Riko
2 eps
Jiro
2 eps
Tetsuhiro Ikeda
4 eps
Kaoru Okunuki
2 eps
Makoto Rei
3 eps
Katsumi Hyodo
3 eps
Yu Sakuma
4 eps
Mariko Tsutsui
2 eps
Kouhei Takeda
1 eps
Kosuke Suzuki
2 eps
Ibuki Asahi
1 eps
Riko Nagai
1 eps
Hiroki Miyake
2 eps
Naomi Nishida
2 eps
Gaku Hosokawa
3 eps
Yukiko Shinohara
2 eps
Mirai Yamamoto
1 eps
Noritaka Hamao
1 eps
Kokoro Morita
2 eps
The Nutevio profile
TV DNA
How Midnight Taxi actually feels to watch, measured on the traits our editors track across every series.
Signature profile
Midnight Taxi reads strongest on Character Depth, Emotional Weight and Bingeability.
How fully written and psychologically layered the ensemble is.
How much the series is designed to affect you.
How hard it is to stop after one episode.
How much each hour depends on the one before it.
How often an episode ends on a hook you can't ignore.
The sustained pressure the series keeps you under.
Visual ambition — scale, craft and set-piece filmmaking.
The scale, internal logic and texture of the world.
How often the series is genuinely funny, by design.
The story
What it's about
A reserved young taxi driver navigates the neon-lit streets of Tokyo, quietly witnessing her passengers' poignant life transitions while embarking on her own introspective journey toward turning thirty.
Behind the series
Created by
Showrunners, creators, executive producers and the writers who set the voice of the series.
The craft
Key Crew
Directing, writing, production, camera, music and editing.
Executive production
- Yusuke WakabayashiProducer
- Taichi MatsumotoProducer
Writing
- Ruri HyodoWriter
Direction
- Ryūichi HondaDirector
- Tadaaki HoraiDirector
- Katsutoshi HirabayashiDirector
Music
- Kan SanoOriginal Music Composer
Where to watch
Streaming
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