In 2018, a newspaper article caught Katharine’s eye, which told of how in far north eastern Japan, taxi drivers were picking up passengers that turned-out to be non-existent. Almost a decade after the tsunami, it seemed the dead had found a place amongst the living. They were ferrying ghosts in their taxis. 

She collaborated with Sebastien Bouret, at Tohoku University, Japan -  whose work focuses on death, religion and memory, often in relation to disaster. She spent 3 years working him and Japanese researchers before they filmed these taxi drivers. Over 12 days, their cars were rigged with cameras and allowed ‘space’ for drivers to talk with their passengers. Access built over three years, opened up spontaneous conversations from these men about what they’d witnessed and the exchanges they’d had with their supernatural passengers. 

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