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Love and Death at Fuji Speedway

3.6 average rating
3.6
Japanese / 80 MIN. / 1972

The Genres

The Synopsis

The movie was inspired by real life test driver Yukio Fukuzawa, who on 12 February 1969 lost control of his Toyota 7 at Fuji Speedway near Nakahinata, Japan and fatally smashed into a signpost. In the movie Kei Kiyama’s pop singer character meets Tôru Minegishi’s doomed racer when he happens along as she’s throwing her own records into the sea. From there things get even cheerier.

The Cast

Toru MinegishiKei KiyamaMiyoko AoyamaGō AwazuEimei EsumiMoeko EzawaSeri IshikawaHatsue TonookaTatsuya HamaguchiIchiro KijimaKunio ShimizuYumi NakanoSeiji HimuroYoshiaki TaniguchiHidetoshi KageyamaMichiko Komori

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