Love and Death at Fuji Speedway

Drama · 1972

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.

Starring

Shinya Inoue, Shinsaku Himeda, Tōru Minegishi, Kei Kiyama, Tōru Murakawa, Miyoko Aoyama, Tōru Murakawa, Gō Awazu, Yasuo Higuchi

Director

Tōru Murakawa

Producer

Akira Miura