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I'm a Virgo writer/director Boots Riley

The Movies That Made Me

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The Taxi Driver: A Novel About a Serious Movie Guy

The film was shot in Japan, but the gangsters there didn't like that it talked about Mishima being gay. They said you can't shoot this here and so Sony pulled out from shooting it. And then a Japanese businessman who had invested a million dollars threatened to commit super cold because he thought they were going to owe him money. The movie has at least until a few years ago had never been shown in Japan. It doesn't really glorify him, but you know, the pain that he went through and in, in, in Kim's life.

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