Megalopolis Expressway Trial (1996)

Original title

首都高速トライアル

Directed by

Shuji Kataoka

Genre

action film

Country

Japan

Runtime

1h 35m

Rating

10.0 of 10 from 2 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

This is a series of Japanese films about illegal highway racing in Tokyo's Shuto Expressway system. It follows street racers as they compete in high-speed pursuits on the city's expressways.

fast-pacedadrenaline-fueledgrittyrawnostalgicundergroundurban

What happens

Megalopolis Expressway Trial (首都高速トライアル, Shuto kōsoku toraiaru) is the original title of a series of six Japanese films, about illegal highway racing in the Shuto Expressway, released between 1988 and 1996. An English subtitled version of the film series (renamed Freeway Speedway) was released on DVD in North America in 2004 due to commercial success of popular Hollywood films like The Fast and The Furious ("before there was The Fast And The Furious, there was Freeway Speedway" is a quote appearing on the fourth DVD). A 4-disc re-release of the 2004 edition was made available in 2007, it was renamed Tokyo Speedway: The Complete Collection. Though also available in Hong Kong, the DVD edition was not released in Japan since the series is still banned and the last episode unreleased yet. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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