Adrenaline Drive
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AKA:
Adorenarin doraibu
[edit] Plot
A meek car rental employee and a mousy nursing student wind up an unlikely Bonnie and Clyde when fate drops a sack full of mob money at their feet. In this case, fate’s messy plan involves a fender-bender with a gangster, a gas explosion at a Yakuza clubhouse, and a bizarre, slow-speed ambulance wreck.
The surly mob boss manages to survive and escape each of these setbacks, albeit in a pair of arm casts and with a lovesick head nurse in tow. In the meantime sleepy hero Suzuki and frustrated heroine Shizuko blow town with a fortune in large bills in hand and a bumbling gang of junior criminals close behind.
Shinobu Yaguchi directs this deadpan farce with a calm assurance and a lolling, lazy pace, creating humor from the sheer absurdity of events and the frustrations of his characters: bullying blow-hard Yakuza thugs, young punks whose attitude and spunk don’t quite overcome their lack of common sense and basic survival skills, and a pair of underdogs who allow events to sweep them out of their dull, predictable lives of humiliation and quiet desperation.
Suzuki and Shizuko hardly speak a word to each other but they nonetheless fall into a sweetly awkward romance in this charmingly oddball comedy.
[edit] Cast
Masanobu Ando - Satoru Suzuki
Hikari Ishida - Shizuko Sato
Yutaka Matsushige - Kuroiwa
Yu Tokui - Chinpira (Yazuka)
Mikita Ogata
[edit] Crew
Director: Shinobu Yaguchi
Writer: Shinobu Yaguchi
[edit] Additional Details
Year: 1999
Country: Japan
Running Time: 112 min
