Member Takuma Posted January 17, 2015 Member Share Posted January 17, 2015 Hakunetsu Dead Heat (1977) is also a pretty fun Japanese car chase film. It's more of a grindhouse fare, the kind of film that you'd imagine young Quentin Tarantino watching in his video store days. The storyline is pure genre film gold: the lives of three carefree youngsters change one night when one of them challenges the wrong car at the traffic lights, leaving him dead at the bottom of a river. His best friend swears for revenge. He uses all his savings for a turbo charged Toyota Celica 2000GT LB and goes after the mysterious phantom driver in Nissan Ken & Mary 2000GTX Hardtop who killed his friend. It's not exactly a great movie, but it's fun and packed with entertaining car action. I have the Japanese dvd, which also comes with a nice booklet. Booklets Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Member Tex Killer Posted January 18, 2015 Member Share Posted January 18, 2015 Charles"The Man"Bronson flick Cold Sweat has excellent car chase. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Member masterofoneinchpunch Posted January 19, 2015 Author Member Share Posted January 19, 2015 Another Japanese film I recommend is the existential car chase film Hairpin Circus (1972). In some respects, it could be described as the Japanese Vanishing Point. ... Thanks again. I appreciate those suggestions (including Hakunetsu Dead Heat) I will keep these in mind, though I wish there were subs available. Now in dealing with existential car chase films I prefer Two-Lane Blacktop to Vanishing Point. Charles"The Man"Bronson flick Cold Sweat has excellent car chase. Thanks. I do need to improve my Charles Bronson watchings of later films (I have seen a decent amount of his smaller performances in film noir, westerns, TV but not as much of his 70s and 80s output.) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Member 66 Mantis Posted January 19, 2015 Member Share Posted January 19, 2015 The mid-film car chase in Aces Go Places 2 is Top 10 worthy, me thinks. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Member 66 Mantis Posted January 19, 2015 Member Share Posted January 19, 2015 Nice to see an Italian movie mentioned. I'm looking forward to exploring these movies. I've only seen 4 but I've heard there's a lot of good Italian movie car chases. Oh yeah, they're as good and intense as anything Hollywood was putting out at the time ('70s). The Italian Connection (La Mala Ordina) is a good one to start with as it's just a great overall film. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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