‘Freeway racing is cool and all, but you know what would make it better? A haunted Datsun Z!’ That’s how we imagine the pitch for the original Wangan Midnight movie went after a film exec chanced across a copy of the manga that inspired it. What is it? Another take on Shuto Expressway racing, only this time with a supernatural twist. It’s the kind of home-grown street racing movie America hasn’t yet been able to produce.
Main character and local racing hero Roy’s ’67 Mustang has ‘Official Chevy Killer’ written on the door, there are a bunch of sweet jumps, and more than a little photo-radar mayhem.
Now awaiting its second sequel, the original Børning posits a race from Trondheim to Norway’s North Cape by a motley crew of surprisingly adult gearheads. Without question, the greatest Norwegian movie ever made about street racing. Oh, and every time there’s a street race, he manages to use the ‘Wraith’ (the name given to the M4S) to get sweet, fiery revenge on his killers. What, that description wasn’t enough? The Wraith posits a world where a street racing teen can be reincarnated as the Dodge M4S Turbo Interceptor supercar, while also sort of still going to high school and hanging out with his buddies. Although no cinematic masterpiece, Initial D pre-dated Tokyo Drift in putting touge action on the silver screen, and remains an important document of its era.Ĭharlie Sheen is a car, and a ghost, and potentially just a normal dude, who murders his murderers while street racing. The story of Takumi the tofu delivery driver’s dominance over the Mount Akina drift scene in his Toyota AE86 Corolla is one of the most enduring works of street racing fiction to ever have been immortalized on film, in animation, or on celluloid. This advertisement has not loaded yet, but your article continues below.
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