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Black Test Car (1962)

Black Test Car poster
Original title
黒の試走車
Directed by
Yasuzō Masumura
Genre
drama film
Country
Japan
Runtime
1h 35m
Rating
7.0 of 10 from 31 voters
Elsewhere
IMDb

How it feels

Two car companies race to develop a new engine. Executives and engineers spy, lie, and sabotage each other to win.

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What happens

Black Test Car (Japanese: 黒の試走車#映画 黒の試走車, Hepburn: Kuro no shisō-sha) is a 1962 Japanese crime thriller film directed by Yasuzo Masumura, co-written by Kazuo Funahashi and Yoshihiro Ishimatsu, and based on the novel of the same name by Toshiyuki Kajiyama. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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