Film

Love and Death at Fuji Speedway

1972 · 1h 20m · Drama

IMDb

5.0

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.

Toru Minegishi

Kei Kiyama

Miyoko Aoyama

Gō Awazu

Eimei Esumi

Moeko Ezawa

Seri Ishikawa

Pop singer

Hatsue Tonooka

Dancer

Tatsuya Hamaguchi

Ichiro Kijima

Kunio Shimizu

Yumi Nakano

Seiji Himuro

Yoshiaki Taniguchi

Hidetoshi Kageyama

Michiko Komori

• Tōru MurakawaDirector · Screenplay
• Kazuhiko FuruyaScreenplay
• Akira MiuraProducer
• Shinsaku HimedaDirector of Photography
• Yasuo HiguchiOriginal Music Composer
• Shinya InoueEditor

Release date

December 27, 1972

Status

Released

Original language

Japanese

Runtime

1h 20m

Genres

Drama