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''Taxi! Taxi!'' () is a 2013 Singaporean comedy film based on the 2010 work ''Diary Of A Taxi Driver'' by Cai Mingjie, said to be "Singapore's most well-educated taxi-driver". Directed by Kelvin Sng and produced by Chan Pui Yin for SIMF Management, the film stars Mark Lee, Gurmit Singh and YouTube personality Chua Jin Sen, better known by his online handle "Dr. Jia Jia". It is Chua's professional film debut. The film follows two fellow taxi-drivers' (Lee and Singh) quest for self-discovery. Distributed by Golden Village Pictures, the film was commercially released in Singapore on January 3, 2013〔(【引用サイトリンク】publisher=Cinema Online )〕 and slated for a January 24, 2013 release in Malaysia. ==Plot== In the prelude of the movie, PhD microbiologist Professor Chua See Kiat (Gurmit Singh) was hanging out on a rooftop when a cab-driver named Ah Tau (Mark Lee) mistaken him for him attempting suicide. This made Ah Tau to receive a fine for illegal parking. After continuous attempts on finding a new job, Professor Chua See Kiat had no choice but to resort into cab driving. Ah Tau volunteered to help him and became his first passenger. Soon, Ah Tau was then fined again for another illegal parking. Whilst Professor Chua is picking up his mother-in-law from the airport, he decides to use the taxi to go back home. Coincidentally the taxi driver was Ah Tau who brought his son, Jiajia, along. On the way, Ah Tau nags about Professor Chua's new career. Annoyed, Professor Chua shouted at him to shut up unwilling to allow his wife and his mother-in-law to know about his new career. This deteriorates Ah Tau and Professor Chua's friendship. Professor Chua had encountered some hard time whilst being a cab driver. Once his passenger was a scientist working in his former lab. After dropping him, he encounters his former colleagues. Reluctant to let them know about his new job, he went of with another taxi and had his own taxi wheel clamped. He soon encountered some party-goers as for being his passengers when they soon refuse to pay their taxi fees and stole his phone. Furious, he chased off his passengers and ended up into getting more troubles with gangsters. Ah Tau helped him by recording the scene and got himself punched by the gangsters. The gangsters are then caught and Professor Chua gave Ah Tau a mobile phone to thank him. However he is yet to face his wife who was crying. He then explains the situation to her as she promised not to tell anyone about his new job. Despite having the job mummed, Chua's son realised about it as Chua once picked he and his girlfriend up as one of their passengers. Soon the family had a brief scuffle and his son decided not to talk to him. Ah Tau had a similar situation for showing Jiajia edited pictures of his long lost mother when Jiajia realised that Ah Tau and Regina had both edited it. This made Jiajia not to talk to his father. The two shared their grievances and decided to help each other in the future. The next day, Chua realised that his mother-in-law left the house unattended. This allow him to understand the 'taxi culture'. Ah Tau asked all taxi drivers to find her while Chua gave descriptions of her. It was successful. Chua also helped Ah Tau by developing his son's broken English and tried to find a suitable school for him. While Ah Tau was set on a date with Regina, he was caught by a policeman (Chua En Lai) who gave a long, memorised 'sppech' for doing an illegal U-turn). His taxi ran out of fuel and he was forced to take another taxi before being caught by the same policeman as he repeats the 'speech'. Regina felt that Ah Tau isn't worth a wait and stomped her off on the streets, leading into a car accident. While she was in hospital, she found out that her eyesight is blurred and she is unable to fulfil her dream to be a fashion designer. This made her to almost attempt suicide on the hospital's roof. Chua explains the situation Regina is in to Ah Tau, who was in the middle of his son's performance. While he was on his way, Chua explains to Regina about his story on being a cab driver, which then calms her down and lose her thoughts on committing suicide. It was recorded as his son watches it live. Few years later, Chua's son began idolising his father again. While Chua regains his job as a professor, he still wants to stick into taxi driving. Regina became a DJ as she falls in love with Ah Tau. The film ends with Chua and Ah Tau driving off the roads. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Taxi! Taxi!」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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