Love and Death at Fuji Speedway

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.

Director: Tōru Murakawa

Cast: Toru Minegishi, Kei Kiyama, Miyoko Aoyama, Gō Awazu, Eimei Esumi, Moeko Ezawa, Seri Ishikawa, Hatsue Tonooka

Audience-only score — full critic data not yet in the ReelXO vault.