Tachigui retells Japan's history from 1945 to 21st century through the feats of self-proclaimed dine and dash professionals - the Fast Food Grifters are the phantoms that rise and fall with the shifting diet-styles. They are the dissenting heroes who carved their names on the dark side of dietary culture with their glare. Now their legend revives, strong as ever...
Direction
Oshii's static tableaux make fast food feel like religious ritual.
Writing
Endless narrator monologues that somehow become hypnotic.
Production
Photorealistic food + flat characters = intentional uncanny valley.
Director
Mamoru Oshii
Mako Hyodo
Foxy Croquette O-Gin (voice)
Koichi Yamadera
Narrator (voice)
Shinji Higuchi
Beefbowl Ushigoro (voice)
Toshio Suzuki
Cold Badger Masa (voice)
Kenji Kawai
Hamburger Tetsu (voice)
Shoji Kawamori
Medium Hot Sabu (voice)
Kenji Kamiyama
Manager Kamiyama (voice)
Toshimichi Ohkawa
Yuichi Nakamura
Mitsuhisa Ishikawa
Crying Inumaru (voice)
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
The entire cast of voice actors are Oshii regulars and industry legends, including Ghibli producer Toshio Suzuki cameoing as Cold Badger Masa.
Each grifter represents a real postwar Japanese food trend, from black market yakisoba to 1980s luxury beef bowls.
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