Shuto Kousoku Trial 2

0:00Hello, and welcome to Generation 2. video. I'm Wes. And I'm Rhett. And we want to welcome you back to the store. It's our third episode in what like two weeks. Something like that. That's crazy. We did our little scream seven bonus episode. Yeah. Yeah. That was fun. That was fun. So a lot of people are enjoying that episode, which is cool. So very nice. I think we actually make some pretty good takes on there. You know, summarizing the movie first of all, but then yeah, some some good insightful commentary on it. Yeah, I enjoyed it. I know a lot of people are finding it kind of divisive as far as fans.

1:03So I was talking to a friend of the show, Brian Wolford recently. And he was giving me some shit because I didn't like five and six that much, but I like seven. I was like, you know, like I like weird shit. What can I say? Exactly. Yeah. So you definitely keep everybody on their toes. Yeah. Yeah. I mean, it's just fun to do that sometimes. You know, so anyway, stay froggy friends. Pretty much. Yeah. So have you seen anything else recently? Honestly, no. We were going back and watching some old Futurama, but that's about it. Always classic. Yep. We actually just today, right before we came over here, we watched the how Hermes requisitioned his groove back with the best line ever. You're correct or technically correct. The best kind of correct. Yep. Yep. Is that the that's the one where they go to the the bureaucracy place, right? Yeah. That's a good one. And then Hermes has like four minutes to sort this insanely

2:04impossible pile of bureaucratic tube, whatever they do in the future. Oh, yeah, yeah, with the like the drive up tubes or whatever, right? And there's like the mountain of them. Jim, let us know if you've gotten that far yet. Right season two. Yeah. Oh, for sure. Yeah. That's a good one. That's a really good one. Yep. What about you? What you watch? I really watched anything specific that I can think of. Shannon's been kind of binging the closer. So I've kind of just had that been kind of backgrounding that while I'm playing switch or, you know, on my phone or some shit. So standard week then it's. Yeah. Kind of. Yeah. I mean, I haven't really dived into anything like long form really lately. So, you know, but that can change. I tend to go in waves as far as, you know, what I'm into. So kind of say a lot of the new popular shows have not really been catching my like or drawing my eye like the new Game of Thrones show. I was like, seen enough Game of Thrones and there's the the new Vince Gilligan thing on Apple like

3:05Pluribus. I was like, yeah, maybe get around to that. And then there's, I just seen a trailer for the final, the boy's season. And I'm like, yeah, I'm a season behind on that already. Okay. I was like, new TV has just not been like seeming all that interesting recently. Yeah. I'm surprised with the boys because you really enjoyed the first few seasons, right? Yeah. I really did like season one through three. I thought we're awesome. But then I don't know like whenever I have to wait forever for a new season on the show, I just kind of lose interest. Like whenever you lose all your momentum, all the wins out of your sales, I just, I don't know how about like a NERSHA. And I just don't really feel like having to catch back up and remember what happened three years ago. And or two year, you know, like because then you have to do all your homework and eat your vegetables before you can even watch a show again. Yeah. Well, yeah. I mean, that's a big commitment, I guess, depending on how many episodes there are. Or how long the see, you know, five seasons can be 10 years for some shows, you know? True. Yeah. So that's my so bucks on this episode. Sorry, everybody. That's fair. That's fair. I mean, to go take everybody down that route. But I have been

4:06wrecking my brain trying to think of what this freaking episode is going to be. Oh, man. Yeah, I didn't think you would guess it. So, um, again, just, you know, our random picks are we're just kind of throwing a movie out and kind of surprising each other as to what it could be. So, um, yeah. So my pick this week, um, I didn't think you would get it. So because it's, it's pretty, it's pretty niche. Well, let me let me take a guess. Go ahead. You have already given me three clues. I can give you. Yeah, you've given me one already, like early on where you would, you know, just in our texting, you said, you know, it's an hour and nine minutes. So it's not a standard runtime movie. That's my first kind of guess. Pretty short. So that is, uh, you know, just from conversation, I'm thinking it's maybe an anime movie. No. Dang. You're, you're close, but no. Let's see. Is it like Italian horror movie or something kind of like indie-ish low-budget stuff? Um, no to Italian horror, no to indie-ish. I would say. I don't even know when to start. Give me,

5:11give me a hint. I guess that you think can get me in the ballpark. I have no, I have little faith in me. Okay. It's a Japanese film. Okay. Oh, so we got to be doing some sort of karate kung-fu. Not necessarily. Oh, okay. Oh, man. Mm-hmm. Shoot. Let me give you, uh, let me give you one more hint. Is it old boy? No. Dang. 1990 is the release date. Which is going to be hard for you anyway. I figure. Cause, you know, let me just, you're just pulling up your list of 1990 Japanese films, sir. Yeah. Like, I just went through like the three of them in the catalog. I got to like just 97. The flip past 97 blank pages. Sure. Uh, third clue is street racing. Street racing? F, dude. I don't know. That is, I'm so far away. Yeah. No guesses at all. So, um, last year we did Tokyo Drift. No, it's adjacent to that actually. Oh, sick. That one. Tokyo Drift is rocked.

6:17Last year we, uh, we covered a movie I did, um, called, uh, Shuto Koshiko Trial. The animated one. Uh, no, it was a live action. It was a live action street racing movie. Okay. And shoot. Oh, oh, it's been a minute. I don't know the one that now. It's been. Oh, that one, the one that had like a ton of views that we were not expecting. Yeah. So that ended up being our, our most downloaded episode. Yeah. That still just baffles me. Well, I think it's cool because, uh, you know, sometimes there are these really, really hidden gems that have gotten lost in the shuffle over the years. But if you know, you know, kind of thing. So it's fun to kind of bring some awareness to that. Yeah. And you are definitely the king for those weird hidden gem type stuff. So I'm, I'm ready for another one. I'm just, I know it's going to be bizarre, but, you know, I have faith in your picks at this point. No, it's not, it's not bizarre really at all. Um, but we're going to, so tonight we're going to be talking about, uh, Shuto Koshiko Trial, too. So there's six movies in the, in the series. Shit. So when I said, I think last episode,

7:18I'm like, yeah, we're going to do a sequel. Yeah, I forgot about the aliens. Like, yeah, eventually we'll get there. But I was thinking way more obscure, way more niche. I forgot about sequel territory. Yeah. Dang. That was, that's good, uh, plot twist there on me. Got me good. Big twist. Yeah. So, um, so yeah, what I thought I would do is, um, I thought we'd watch, uh, Shuto Koshiko Trial, too. And then I want to talk a little bit, um, because it's a short movie. We'll go through the plot. Um, I want to talk about the, um, the professional race driver that's in it and kind of his life and it was based on and kind of the influence of that amongst, um, a lot of pop culture that we know of today. So stuff like, uh, Fast and Furious Tokyo, Extreme, uh, Ridge Racer, all that stuff. So sounds righteous. Yeah. So that's my goal. Um, I don't really have a trailer for this one because the, um, the trailer that I found is really just the theme song. Uh, so we're just going to play that at the end of the episode. Stay tuned. Yeah,

8:18stay tuned because it's five minutes long and it's in Japanese and, you know, it's not going to play well for a trailer because nobody's going to know, you know, what she's saying, because I don't have translation over, you know, this summer, they needed to raise cars to make money. And then they drifted in Tokyo, in Tokyo, something like that. So do your, do your best trailer voice and give us a 10 second trailer on this. Okay, 10 second trailer, um, or 15, you know, I don't want to limit you too much, but you can give us a brief trailer on this with your trailer voice. In a world of illegal street racing. Here comes another illegal street race. Guitar riff. But this time he's not racing for his friends. He's racing for revenge. Let's fucking go. Something like that. I'm down. So yeah, so let's go watch the movie and then we'll come

9:19back and we'll dive into it. That trailer was sick, but I'm excited. Sweet. I hope it's not disappointing. It will be. That's fine. Stay tuned. And we are back after watching a chuto cofisco trial to this movie was not on your radar at all. No, I was not guessing that one. In a million years, sequels were not even on my radar. I know you had mentioned that last week, you know, or a couple weeks ago that you were thinking sequels, but I had forgotten. So nicely done. Thank you. Thank you. Yeah. I like to throw a curveball every now and then of just some random weird shit that you probably haven't seen. Exactly. Nice. Yes. Uh, this movie surprised me too. Like I feel like every time I'm watching some of these, you know, oddball picks, as I would call them, you know, I'm going in with really low expectations. And I'm always coming out the other side. Pretty surprised. That's pretty good. Yeah. That's pretty good. You know, it's one of those things as so much content is out there. There's a lot

10:19of stuff that gets lost in the shuffle. And if you're a fan of this stuff, like it's fun to be able to show this to other people or to make, you know, bring an awareness to it. Because with the proliferation of so many things now online, a lot of these things are way easier to get to. Honestly, yeah. Like, and there's no, yeah, there's, there's not a huge barrier of entry to it. So if you hear something, you're like, Oh, that sounds cool. I'll go check it out. You know, I mean, these movies are on YouTube and internet archive, like wherever you can find them. I mean, there's also legitimate versions too. Don't get me wrong. But I'm just saying it's accessible. Yeah. The accessibility is one thing. So you don't have to pay scalpel prices for niche stuff anymore, which is sweet. I mean, it is her to lose every penny on trying to gouge people for. Yeah. Because that was the problem for a long time with a lot of stuff. It was like, Oh, if this movie is out of print or it's obscure or whatever, but it's on eBay for like 400 bucks, like fuck that. Like I just want to see it, you know. So unless the original, like,

11:24rights holder, you know, if they're getting royalties, that's one thing. I'll support that. But like, if it's a scalper, just selling to use copy, like, nah, exactly. Yeah. No, I'm cool. Yeah, this one was a pretty quick movie. So this should be a shorter discussion hour nine minutes. So I thought what I would do is just kind of go into the background of this movie and like, kind of where it was at the time. And then I want to get into a little bit of the backstory of the professional driver in this movie, which is K.E. Cheese, Sucia, and kind of his importance to drift racing and movies and video games and, you know, pop culture or stuff like that. That kind of like a plan. Yeah. This movie. Yeah. That guy, I think, was responsible for all the sweatiest palm scenes. So I'm excited to get to that point. Absolutely. We could just call this movie just sweaty palms the movie. Yeah. Yeah. Cause I mean, you know, when you're filming the race scenes and you've got a camera strap to the front of a Skyline GTR going probably 120

12:27down the down the expressway, expressway with the actual traffic. Yeah. Yeah. You're going to get some sweaty palms. Absolutely. So that's what we're here for, right? And it's so well done. Like this movie gets you so freaking immersed. Mm hmm. We'll get there. We'll get there. Oh yeah. For sure. So the first movie we talked about last year, Shuto Kofsko Trial, which was pretty unknown outside of Japan for a long time. That was actually, it became sort of very well known for getting banned from Japanese cinemas. Oh shoot. And I think we talked about this on the episode. So go back and go back and find that one if you're curious. No publicity is that publicity. Exactly right. But a lot of officials at the time were criticizing the foam because it kind of glorified illegal street racing, showing it as like heroic and exciting without a lot of negative consequences. So because of that, Japanese movie studios Niketsu

13:30Korp and the Toei company brought in Japanese racing hero Kichi Suchiya as a producer. So for the sequel, an anti-street racing message was adopted avoiding another band. So this movie is semi-autobiographical for Kichi Suchiya because before he became like a super awesome really well-respected race car driver, he was kind of a misguided kid racing on the Toku express ways back in the day. So there's a real street racing gang back then called the Midnight Club, which was one of the most infamous street racing gangs. And of course then you'd see rock star games make midnight club games, you know, later on and stuff like that inspired by the actual Toku expressway drift racing. Dang, that's nuts. Yeah. So basically, you know, when he

14:31was kind of coming up in street racing and stuff, he saw a lot of a lot of firsthand carnage, right? A lot of accidents, a lot of deaths. So Shuto Koshko Trial 2 became semi-autobiographical, tapping into it like his Suchiya's reasons for quitting street racing and aspiring to be a pro race driver. That all seems very applicable to the movie. That's really cool to now going into this. Yeah. Yeah. So that's what's cool about this movie is on the surface. It plays really well. It's a nice heartwarming and during story. But when you start digging into behind the scenes stuff, you're like, oh, that's really cool. Right. Yeah. This is like, it feels relatable because someone related to it very well. It's from someone's real life. Yeah. 100%. We were talking about it. And it'll make sense when we get to the end, but this movie, like we were saying, it feels so simple, like it's not overly complicated. It's not a whole lot of nuance, but movies that are relatable or that much better because they just end up feeling that much more heartwarming because you

15:32connect it with the characters more. Yeah. No, you absolutely nailed that as far as the relatability and just something nice and simple. A well-written plot that goes A, B, C and doesn't have a lot of filler or anything. Yeah. You don't need to juggle like nine plates to have all these callbacks for the movie to be worthwhile at the end of it. There's not a lot of blue milk. Yeah, exactly. Not a lot of member berries, so to speak, but I've stalled long enough. That's a hard term, right? Yeah. No, that's fine. We stalled. I see what she did there. But I'm it's. So Tsuchiya is known as the Drift King, like in real life. So he is a two-time 24-hour of Le Mans class winner in the 2001 All Japan GT Championship runner-up. So he typically used to drive a Toyota A886 Printer Trino and was a consultant and editorial supervisor for both the initial D and Wangan Midnight manga and anime. Sweet. So this guy was kind of the inspiration for

16:37the main character of initial D in a way. Wow. Which is pretty cool. So his life in driving his parallel to that of initial D's main character Takumi as they both started getting into street racing while doing regular deliveries for their family businesses. Whoa. So that's kind of the how initial D starts is you know he's driving the tofu deliveries in the morning psych on the mountain passes. And then he's got a couple water on the dash and so he's trying not to spill it and then that's what like kind of trains him to be like a really good racer. Oh, that's cool. It's really cool. It's a Miyagi type of drifting stuff. Totally. Totally. That's awesome. Yeah. Tsuchiya was also brought in as a technical advisor on Fast and the Furious Tokyo Drift and did much of the stunt driving in that picture. There's also why that one is my favorite of the franchise. Yeah, we were just talking about Tokyo Drift earlier and shoot me and Tracy meme on that movie all the time. And sometimes someone drives poorly or does something crazy and they were always just thinking like

17:37no, Tokyo Drift appear. Yeah, totally. That movie just lives in inner zeitgeist still. Yep, yep. So that's what was cool about seeing that movie for the first time when I'm like, oh shit, like he's in there. Like that's cool. You know, that's yeah, that's awesome. Especially if you knew all this stuff. It's like, oh man he big enough to be on Hollywood movies now man. He's totally freaking made it totally worldwide superstar. Yeah. So he also served as a producer on this movie as well. So very nice. Yeah. So again, kind of this movie adopting the anti-street racing message, but also coming from like a place of authenticity, you know, it's a hard line to balance it is. It is. It feels like they somehow juggled both of them. Like you can tell by the end of it there there there is a message that they're going with there, but it doesn't feel like over like force. It feels like, yeah, like, okay, well, I've

18:38I actually for once can buy into a public message because I understand why they're saying. Yeah, what was it you you're turning me and said like towards the end of the movie. You're like, am I watching a public service announcement? Yeah, I was like, wait, was this whole thing just a public service announcement? And you're like, yep, I was like, he's son of a bitch. Yeah, yeah, it actually worked. It did. That's hilarious. Reminds me of the what was the six part dare special about cocaine homes. Yeah, yeah, exactly. Yeah, yeah. Not once in that dare special did they tell me where to get the cocaine and what to look for, you know, how to make it dare misled me to really believe that there was going to be a whole life of drugs being offered my way. Not one time has that ever happened. So that was a fucking lie. Yes, thanks, dare. Yeah. So anyway, the movie begins with Keiichi Succia testing different types of tires in his 1989 Nissan Skyline GTR, the R32, which is one of the most badass drift cars I would say ever made. Just an all wheel drive monster of a

19:41horsepower car. It's just incredible. Yeah, which I believe is also in the Tokyo drift movie. Yeah, 100% I just know that because I was looking at a universal ride coming to the theme park and it's fast and furious and they have the GTR as one of the carts that are going to be in the right. Yeah, yeah, we were looking at that because it's got the Dodge Charger and then it has the Mazda something. Yeah, Mazda RX-7. Yeah. And then it has the Skyline R32. So pretty badass. That's a cool lineup. Yeah, I don't know anything about cars really, but they looked sweet. And this this GTR like I don't know if it feels like such a sleeper car. It feels like it's not trying to be flashy, but it just like gets the job done so much better than everything else, right? That's that's kind of what they were. And you know, like the Skylines go way way back to like I think the earliest one probably would have been like a 1969 Skyline and they were like just, you know, economy type sedans for a long time. And then the way that some of this street racing

20:44kind of got popular is people figured out a lot of these like just middle priced cars could you could do really cool shit with them because even though like maybe they didn't have the most horsepower, but they had a lot of torque and you could like drift and do kind of crazy stuff with them, which then pushed manufacturers to make more enthusiast type cars. And so it just became kind of a kind of a thing. So if you start to get into like 90s Japanese car culture with like JDM stuff, like you start finding like all these cool sleeper cars. That's awesome. Yeah, sleeper cars are the coolest ones. You don't see them coming and then they're just like taking off. Yeah, everyone loves an underdog, right? Yeah, exactly. Yeah, because I mean, at this point, this this particular Skyline probably would have retailed for I would say in today's money probably, I don't know, $30, $40,000 probably. So like just like an average type of a vehicle, right? Yeah, top end, but like you're gonna pay pretty penny, but you're gonna get a lot out of it.

21:47Right. And you could you could tune it up with a lot of parts and different, you know, different things. So it was very expandable. But by and large, like it was also it was a four-wheel drive car or all-wheel drive car that just had a lot of control to it. You know, where's like a lot of drifting in like a rear-wheel drive car, you're kicking the back wheels out and kind of fish tailing and controlling the drift, right? But with all-wheel drive, you have all four wheels that are applying pressure at the same time. So it becomes harder to drift, but also gives you a greater level of control. Yeah, like if you have the chops for your maneuverability seems like it could be better. Yeah, it's like the expert level, right? Yeah, like the ceilings higher. Yeah, yeah. So this movie focuses on two friends, Takahiro and Junichi. So they're both deep in the street racing scene. You know, they're in the nightlife of racing and going for the glory, right? But they're kind of going in opposite directions in life, right? Like Takahiro has opened

22:48up a tuning shop where he's earning cash to buy more upgrade parts for his cars. So he can race every night. I think at this point, he's got a, I think it's super. Yeah, it's a 1989 Toyota Supra. So it's got the it's the long-bodied Supra, which is cool. Like the newer ones are like much smaller and more aerodynamic, but this particular style is kind of like, because they're just kind of, they just like look like mean street cars. That's a good, they have mean as a good term. Yeah, they look like they're trying to like take up space, you know? Yeah, be big bullies on the road kind of. That's kind of what I like about these styles of cars, like 80s and 90s Japanese cars like this, because they're just kind of they're understated and they're just cool. I don't know, there's just something about them. Like they're not trying to be cool, but they're they're just they just are. Yeah, there's like a distinct style to them. Yeah. So Takahiro is driving a Nissan

23:52Silvia S13 Ks, which is a very specific model. He breaks the course record held by his friend, Janici, Janici drove a Skyline RSX, which is the R30. So the R32 is like the new one that just came out. So Janici's Skyline is like two generations behind, right? But he still he held the course record in an older car for a long time. Takahiro has now has beat the record. So they're kind of they're celebrating, you know, celebrating like, I got the best time. Like what do you think about that? And Janici is basically like, you know what? I'm I'm giving up street racing. I'm getting married. You know, it's it's time to time to move on with life. Right. You got to know when to call it. Yeah. Move on to more important stuff. Yeah. And he kind of urges his friend. He's like, you know, you shouldn't you shouldn't street race like it's dangerous. People are going to get killed. You know, should do this on the track. If you're if you're going to do it. Yeah. We know how this ends realistically.

24:55Right. Right. So then we cut to I'd say the the rival of the film, which is street racing rival character named Sawaki. And Sawaki is driving a Nissan Fair Lady Z Z32. And so he challenges Takahiro. I wonder if there's a how many people in the audience are like me and don't know Jack should about cars. And it just sounds like, you know, gibberish. It sounds like gibberish. Like alien language. Yeah. So the Fair Lady Z is the the most comparable thing over here. We got the 350 Z. Oh, yeah. You've probably seen those. Those are the smaller sort of like angular like. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. So that's in the same family as the Fair Lady Z's shoe. I actually knew one of them. Yeah. So it's yeah. So that's the thing. Like if you don't you might not know the specific car, but you probably know an adjacent model or something else. And so when you start digging into these, if you're into cars, then you're like, Oh, okay, cool. Well, they did that. And then there was that one. And they all had specific styles for their generations. Well, the only thing that

26:01well, the only knowledge that I have about cars comes from forza. That's pretty good, though. And I got to say while we were watching this, I did have in the back of my mind that the new forza is coming out. And it's in Japan. So that's pretty exciting. I'm pretty hyped for that. Because that is that's forza horizon. So it's the more arcade like stuff. Hell yeah, the good one. Yeah. Yeah. Well, I like fired. Yeah. I liked I played three and four a lot, but I didn't play a lot of the new ones, but I've actually only ever played forza horizon five. And if any, the forza games, because I was never really like I played old need for speeds that, you know, like underground or whatever, but that's about it. Sure. And I don't really care about racing games, but then I just had game pass ultimate and seeing forza was there in like how killing hour with this. Yeah. And then I loved it so much. I played it like nonstop for a month. Yeah. I remember, yeah, when we first started hanging out and you were playing it quite a bit, it's like, yes, looks cool. So the game was so sick. Yeah. So I'm I'm guessing that the new one hopefully will have since it takes place in Japan, you probably have mountain style, drift racing, probably initial D style, and then hopefully probably I'm sure the express

27:04ways in there. Yeah, like the one that they do their the races on for the most part. Yeah, that would be if they don't have it on there, that's going to be a huge loss. Yeah. Yeah. So look forward to that, everybody. Oh, for sure. Yeah. And I mentioned this on the other show too when we did the first shoot on Costco trial, but you know, one of the other big ones if you're if you're into video games or have been a gamer for a while, you probably know of the series Tokio Extreme racer, which is basically inspired by these films. There's a new one that just came out. I think it's it's finally coming to consoles this year and maybe in the next month or two. It's been on early access on steam for about a year, but they made it new Tokio Extreme racer and it was like, holy shit, like the last one was like, I think 2005 on PS2. So it's been like 20 plus years and then they came out with this new one. And I've been playing it for a long time and it is awesome. So freaking a Phoenix dude just from the ashes. Yeah. So again, if you're into this

28:07stuff, like I'm a big fan, obviously. So it's it's pretty sweet to see that stuff, but especially for Forza, I think that hopefully it's really good. And there's a lot of a lot of cool stuff like this in there. Yeah. Honestly, if people who don't give a crap about cars can have an amazingly fun time playing that game, then yeah, you're doing something right. Oh, for sure. For sure. So we have Sawaki in the Fairly Z. He challenges Takahiro, but Junichi steps in to stop it. And basically, he's like, no, like, we're not we're not going to do that. So isn't he kind of saying like, you don't need to street race. He like, if you're going to be race and do it, do it on the track. Yeah, he's kind of standing up for for what he believes at this point is like, you know, we can't do this. Yeah, this is kind of the public service message of the movie, right? It's like, don't do that. Like don't be stupid. Exactly. Like it's reckless. And like, you know, you're going to race. And like, if you're going to settle it, like, just do it, do it in a

29:07I hate it. Like, I don't want to sound too PSA doing it in a way that where you're not going to like kill someone else or yourself or you know, get someone hurt. I mean, these are, you know, these are kids that are hot headed kids that are out to prove themselves, right? And make a name for themselves. And this is how they think they can do it, right? Exactly. Yeah. And I think what we went off on a little tangent watching the movie where I mean, you play the game to win, you know, like, you're out here if you're doing this, like, they're trying to win, and they're playing their heart out. Like, so I get it. You know, if this is what you're, what the culture is in there, you know, racing is the sinus status, you know, race your heart out. But, you know, no one, like, it's time to move on from that. Yeah. Or do it in a safe place. And not don't be stupid. Exactly. Don't do it on Knoxville Avenue in Peoria. Right. You got to graduate to the big leagues at some point, right? Like, or else, like, you got to play the game to win. Or he's trying to do stay in the am's and not go anywhere with it your whole life. Like, right. What's all for otherwise? Right. Yep. Exactly. So, um, uh, Takahiro, uh, the next day, he, he sees,

30:10Kachi outside at Nissan dealership. Kachi's driving his R32 skyline. And, uh, Takah comes up and kind of just cut them off, uh, and challenges him to a race, which is, you know, that's kind of, you see this a couple of times in the movie where somebody just, uh, approaches somebody on the street and just kind of, you know, forces him to pull over and just be like, I'll see you tonight on the expressway. Like Pokemon battle. It basically, yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Uh, so Kachi says, uh, he no longer races on the street, but just on the track. So, um, definitely the message in this movie. That's the message. Yeah. Uh, but while that's going on though, I think I will say, it's a good message though, because it's like, seriously, like, go pro. It's like, it's double edge. You're safe, but that's like, literally aspire to be a pro. Yeah. Like I can get behind that, too. Yeah. You, you, you have talent. Like don't waste it and kill yourself, but take that and hone it. Exactly. Yeah. Yeah. So, um, but while that's happening, Junichi actually agrees to race

31:13instead on the condition that, uh, Sawaki leaves Takahiro alone. And that, uh, also then, he, he, uh, tells his friend Takahiro then basically like, I'm going to do this race for you, but you've got to give up street racing. Right. He's like, nobody beats this guy and he's like, well, I have faith. No, no, no, no races guy because I have faith in my own skills. So I'm going to. Yeah. Yeah. And then there's a scene where, um, we see him kind of like he's sitting at home, he's smoking a cigarette, you know, just kind of like, you know, it's, you know what he's going to do. Right. He's going to pick up his keys. He's going to go and, uh, phone rings. He doesn't answer it and it's his wife and his wife's basically like, uh, hey, I'm going to be working late. So, uh, I just wanted to let you know I'll be home later. Wait. We forgot a moment while they're all, well, I sit around with the boys too. I don't want to be jumping the gun here, but isn't he asked to like, he's in a little bit of a dilemma. He's like, I want to, I want this, spend all this money on this new car. Yes. That's true. We did skip that part. Yeah. We need to mention that.

32:18Yeah. So after it was after the, uh, after the dinner scene in the beginning, I forgot about that. Yeah. Um, yeah. Basically they're, you know, because he's like, yeah, we're getting married. Um, we've saved up a bunch of money and he's like, I could either get a new skyline or I could take my wife to Europe. Right. I could continue this. Maybe not the most, you know, responsible dream and go, you know, put all my money in this car. Or I could, you know, grow up a little bit and treat about, you know, kind of become a man. So to speak. Yeah. Yeah. And I think that's, uh, that's a heartfelt message too, though, of, uh, growing a little bit older and maturing a little bit. Making smarter decisions for the future, for the ones you love. Not just the crap you care about. Right. And just kind of, yeah, just putting some of that stuff on the back burner and just be like, you know, I've got to, I've got to do this now, you know, um, I think everybody kind of goes through that at some point in their lives in which something changes and, you know, you're either hesitant

33:19about it or you go with it. Yeah. You know, it's a process. Real line. You rise up to the play, you step out of the child, you know, exactly. Yeah. So, um, but yeah, good point. Um, so yeah, he's, he's saying at this point, yeah, he's like, I'm, I'm going to take her on vacation. We're going on a honeymoon. We're getting married. Yeah. I'm, I'm getting out of this. Smart choice. Every, every married man says that is a very smart choice. Yeah. Yeah. But as we said, uh, she leaves a message on the machine. She's going to be working late tonight. So what's he do? He picks up the keys and, uh, goes to race to walkie without, without telling the Zomi at all. Yeah. He's just going to go settle this once and for all. Yeah. Um, so, yeah. So he gets in a race and, uh, this is, again, this is the best parts of the film or the, uh, just the, the camera work of the races on the expressway, uh, because again, filmed with actual professional drivers that know all, you know, know all the tricks for, for driving at high speeds.

34:25So what do they do? Like, most of these scenes have just cameras strapped to either a front bumper to capture like first person footage, or we have, uh, chase cars, you know, filming from, uh, from above or front behind different, different angles. So, uh, cut away with, um, shots of the drivers, like actually executing the stuff inside of the car. Shifting, uh, we see a lot of, uh, a lot of clutch and, uh, break and accelerating, uh, the third pedal. Yeah. Remember the third pedal, y'all. Yeah. The, the mythical third pedal. Um, so yeah, it's really cool. And then like you said, you had a good quote, um, early on, because you're like, I like that there's no music because it's like car ASMR. Yeah. I mean, seriously, whenever like we're doing what I call the sweaty palm scenes, whatever we're doing, all this racing, like you get so sucked into it because it's seriously just engine noises, them shifting and just, yeah, car ASMR basically just, yeah. Emersia. Well, that's what's cool too, because, um, especially

35:27again, if you're, if you're a car fanatic and you know how certain cars sound because every engine is different. And if you're into that stuff or if you're a gear head, like that's, uh, you know, that's porn for your ears pretty much. Yeah, I knew this guy. He was, uh, named Brian. He was not in our Brian. Yeah. One of my friends, Brian, he, uh, he was insane. He'd worked at a garage for ever and ever. He grew up with cars. And he with uncanny accuracy could just hear a car from outside and guess which what it is. He's like, oh, that sounds like a Ford silver or Chevy Silverado or Ford F, or that sounds, you know, he would just like with, he wouldn't get them all right, because obviously some cars are just like shitters, you know, but like more than half the time, you know, he wouldn't nail it. Yeah. And it's, that's a thing too that's starting to become a little bit less common because, uh, with so many hybrids and EVs now, they all have a, a very distinct sound to them. Oh yeah. And it's very different than, um, back when you had a car that had maybe, um, you

36:33know, like a V6 naturally aspirated versus a turbo injected car or, you know, all that, all that gibberish. Yeah. All those things. I don't understand. But it's true though. I mean, it's like the individual pieces that make up the composition give it its uniqueness. And so then each thing kind of sounds different. Yeah. Like the muscle car air itself, you know, there's just like those, those sound so far away from like cars nowadays. Yeah. It's the same as if you looked at say a Sega Genesis and a Super Nintendo, like both had different sound chips in them. So they each had their own specific flavor of sound. Yeah. Let's go ahead and look at it. And whereas like modern consoles, modern games are, are all kind of on the same parody. So they don't have that the barrier for that is kind of removed now. You don't have different custom hardware. Everything's kind of standardized. But back then, like, you know, the console sounded specific, right? And you could attribute that to like a lot of things.

37:35Whether it be just design elements or, you know, somebody engineered it a certain way. And the same with cars. Like, you know, people would design a car a certain way or an engine a certain way. And it gave it a uniqueness. Absolutely. Yeah. Yeah. I think uniqueness was the term that I was going to use for. There's like a brand, a little bit of an identity, a recognized ability to it that has certainly gone off to the side. Unless your car sounds like mine, and it just sounds like shit. And you can hear it coming, but you'll never guess what it is. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. I don't know. It sounds like an old Honda Civic that somebody just chopped the muffler off. Yeah. Sort of. Civic is what I like to go for. Yeah. Well, it's like, uh, it didn't. Tracey had a smart car for a while, right? Oh, she sure did. Yeah. In the Midwest, lots of snow, smart car. Yeah. But like, that thing kind of had a very specific sound to it, too. I think towards the end, didn't it? Yeah. Wind up toy. Yeah. But I mean,

38:36you know, that's a very specific, uh, sound as well, you know, barely alive wind up toy, right? Begging for death. You just sit there all the time. You're like, well, I think Tracey's coming home. I can hear it. Yeah. Everyone's going to hear you. Tracey coming home. Yeah. So yeah. Uh, but yeah, on a, on a Saturn note, uh, here, uh, our, our friend in the film here, Junichi, uh, dies, uh, on the expressway, uh, after he's agreed to, uh, to race. Oh, and I, I didn't want to mention that in the car ASMR Squity Palm scenes. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Like, you get so sucked into it and they do an excellent job of doing like actual freaking jump scares. Like, I'm sure that's happened to you in traffic where you're following this guy, and then all of a sudden, the dude in front of you, like, does this sharp? I'm getting into the left lane without breaking or something. Yeah. Then you never see that there was a line of cars, like at the light that were stopped that you almost smashed into because he never break. This is a very specific reference. That feel like that's what happens. This guy's going full

39:39speed. You're behind that guy and you're just sucked in with like all the car noise. And then all of a sudden, he gets over into the lane and you're not seeing that he was riding up a car's butt really fast. And then boom, like, oh shit, jump scare. Now that car's you're flying at that car all of a sudden that he didn't even know was there. Yeah. And I think, you know, something similar kind of happens here to Junichi because we see him go through the tunnel. And then all of a sudden just kind of like spin out. And then there's a couple of times when they cut back that you can see walkie talkies on the passenger seat. And so the driver would have a walkie talkie. And then, you know, his friends or pit crew, whatever you'd call it, the guys that are at the starting line, then they've got a walkie talkie. So they're listening to the race. I thought that was really clever. Like I was like, I even asked at one point, it's like, why are we showing this? Is that like a police scanner or something? What do we keep looking at? And then the crash happened and then everyone was like, yeah. And I was like, oh, yeah, because again, this is this is before, you know, the modern age of internet and connectivity.

40:42So, you know, that's that's how they were kind of using the using the walkie talkies to sort of monitor the race. They used to have to send birds after you get into a car accident, which, yeah, thank God, I don't do that anymore. Well, the problem was all the birds causing the car accident. Shit. It took a while to figure that out. But they need to get, yeah, your backup bird for whenever you get in the car accident, your bird that caused the accident, you need to send a bird to go do his job. Yeah. Yeah. So you need your backup bird. Yeah. And by then you've, you've already invested like half a million dollars in dead birds. So it's just, it's not worth it. So dang, yeah, that's yeah, that's how the New York, New New York got the owl problem. Oh, totally. 100%. But yeah, so yeah, walkie talkies is kind of the way to monitor the race. What's cool though, in a modern sense, is so I was talking about initial D earlier. And there's a sequel series for initial D called MF Ghost. And MF Ghost is the, it's initial D, but like 30 years

41:46later, so it's now with modern cars. Nice. But the cool hook in that one is they have drones that are following the racers. Cool. Cool. And the drones are live streaming the races. So everybody is like watching these races on their phones. And then that's the whole goal is to try to be the number one driver because they want to be like the top ranked one that everybody's watching like on their phones. It's a really cool hook. That honestly seems like a really nice progression. Yeah. Like where that series should like, I don't follow a whole lot of racing stuff as you can tell on this. But yeah, that sounds cool. Yeah, to use drones to just follow the cars. And you can see like every, every twist in turn, like that's cool. A little freaking lack of two following behind you. Basically. Yeah. Camera. Yeah. How come they don't have that four drones, like a lack of two drone? I can't just be sick. Yeah. Yeah. Come on, Nintendo. No, unfortunately they just sued us already. The Nintendo ninjas strike quickly. We just gave them an idea. And like we, we, we, yep, they had

42:49already somehow they took our idea, thought of it first, and then sued us for giving it to them. Yeah. That sounds like it. That sounded about right. So thanks Obama. Yeah, pretty much. So yeah, do you need to die as, uh, interact on, on shoot or expressway? Um, the, the scene then cuts to a hospital. And it's, uh, it's very quiet. And we just see, um, the wife come around the corner and she sees, um, Takahiro across the hall. And then he kind of just shakes his head. No. And she just kind of drops. Yeah. That's the point where, as the audience member, I was like, no, he died. Yeah. At this point, I was like, he just got in an accident. He might just be really hurt. Then she falls into the floor and my heart sank. Yeah. And it's, you were talking about simplicity. Uh, the scene is, is very quick and has no dialogue. But you can, convey the message directly from, you know, the expressions on their faces. And then just the,

43:50the wide shot of her just sinking to the floor. It's, it's good. Yeah. I literally was like, no, I cried out like I was not as bummed out. Yeah. You're like, did he die? I'm like, yeah. No. Yeah. Sadness. Uh, so a few months later, Junichi's widow, um, comes up to Takahiro. And, uh, this was kind of a heart-wrenching scene, too. I think this got you a little bit, um, because she, she talks about how Junichi was going to give up, um, buying the skyline and take her on a trip to Europe. And she was so moved by that. And she knew how much that he wanted a skyline that she bought him a skyline. No. Yeah. She was going to give it to him as a wedding present. So they could like, you know, do both things. But now he's, he's passed away. So, um, she basically gifts the GTR to Takahiro under the condition that he gives up street racing. Yeah. Dude, that, that did get me

44:52pretty good. It's like, yeah, they were, they deserve each other so much. They were so perfect. And you could tell they loved each other so much because they were each sacrifice and making sacrifices for each other like that. And it's just such a, such a tragic ending for them. Yeah. Yeah. Just in, in simple in its execution without a whole lot of, um, extra fluff. Like, it's just very, uh, it's very natural. Yeah. Like, I just think that there's, there's more power in a relatable story and without all that nuance and stuff like that. Like I said earlier, you can, you can relate to it more if it's, if it's just to the point. I mean, she, they, I know I've been mentioning it way too much. But in scream, yeah, they said, like, that's the beauty of the, in the first movie, he's like, the motive is simple. It's always just good old revenge, baby. Yeah. You know, whenever you have a simple motive, people can understand it. Yeah. And sometimes simple is better. You don't need all of the ties to all the other things, but just make something

45:53entertaining. Exactly. And this is freaking, and it, it's not necessarily entertaining, but it's simple. So it was that much tragic because we all understand like, damn, they, like, this was in a meant sacrifice. They had made for each other and they were so ready to live this happy ever after that they can't ever get because he was trying to do something for their friend. You know, he was being selfless and then lost it all. Yep. Ah, sucks. Yeah. And it's done without, again, without any like musical score, really, or any big like tear jerking, camera movements or anything like that. Like, it's just very much like, it's the dialogue in the scene, but it's effective because it feels natural. So totally. So Tekkihiro begins practicing. He's trying to drift the car in an empty lot. And then he ends up visiting the racetrack. Nizomi brings him to the track to challenge Succia. Keichi Succia, the professional driver.

46:54There was like an intro bit with him where he like actually spanked this course record or something like did a sponsorship drama. So we know this guy is the real deal. Yeah, he's the real deal. And this is the guy that earlier, you know, had a Tekkihiro just kind of challenged him on the street. And he was like, no, if you want to do it, do it on the track. Yeah. And here he is on the track with an R32. Let's go. Yeah. Oh, there was a talk about the intro. There's something that I wanted to say. There's a theme song for this movie. Oh, yeah. Yeah. Feel like it reminded me of like the lost boy's era of like, I don't know, sort of like 80s hair band stuff, you know, I know the timeline is not exactly one to one there. But yeah, you had a pretty good take on why that was. Okay. So yeah, it, and I've talked about this with Brandi Meyer before that a lot of Japanese anime and shows and stuff of like the 1990s still felt like 80s productions. Yeah.

47:58Because they were kind of, it was almost like they were a few years behind, but in a good way, as far as inspiration and like, you know, vibes, I guess you could say. Yeah. Like, I think the timeline you described it to me is like, so whenever we finally got to the 90s, they're in like mid 80s. Yeah. Yeah. That's just a charming bit of lag cultural. Yeah, it is. And that's what's cool about it because we'll play the song at the end credits, but it's just very 80s. You know, there's a lot of synthesizers, a lot of hard guitar riffs, you know, like it's just, it's a very montage worthy. Freakin' montage, yeah. Yeah. But yeah, this the song was, the artist was somebody by the name of Saurri Saito. And the both the opening theme and the ending theme our song is from her album, the album was called Lady. So I'm wondering if maybe this album was in the same production

49:05company as the movie or somebody, somebody knew that this would be a good fit or they, you know, maybe she was like the next, you know, the next idol sensation at the time. I don't know, there's probably a reason for it, but I don't know. She was the one at the beginning, right? And they do like a metal little. Yeah, she kind of brings, she brings a car in for like an oil change or something. Yeah, a little. And she gives the guy the tape to play, which is the theme song for this movie. Yeah, yeah. So it's like this bitch is aware. Yeah, she's too, like she knows she's in the troublemaker. It's a, it's a meta berry. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Or she's just omnipotent and understand she is a character in a movie. Could be, that's weird. Or it could just be like a, like any regular anime that has a song from this artist for the opening credits and a song from this artist on the end credits. Yeah, probably. Yeah, one of those kind of things. Yeah. So, but yeah, so he goes to train with KG, the pro driver. And, but he's not, he's not getting it.

50:16Tucker here is just, he's not focused on the track. He's just, he's consumed about like getting revenge, you know, against, against his rival that, that cost him his friend Junichi's life. Yeah. So, and that's again, relatable. Like he's, he wants to, he wants to move on and get it the big leagues, but it feels like he has unresolved business. Yeah, he can't, he can't pass the revenge part. And then a little bit later, then as he's practicing like out in the field and stuff, then KG pays him a visit out there. Right. And this is like during the, the montage sequence, like they have the 80s montage. Again, this is I think where we're talking about it because in the middle of the film, you know, the theme song starts playing again. And we have a Rocky montage. Even Rocky had a montage. Yeah. Yeah. Like he's jogging. He's lifting weights. You know, we're like, how is this going to help him drive better? And I'm like, what is going? I don't know. You got to be, you got to be strong to hold the wheel in, you know, a particular drift in a certain way or something. I don't know. It's just getting in shape. You know, G forces man.

51:18Yeah. I don't know. Yeah. So yeah, during the montage, then KG approaches him in the field. He's like, all right, let me give you the real lesson here. And it's pretty hilarious because then we just basically get like about five, six minutes of footage of a professional racecar driver just drifting a skyline like figure eight. Figure eight in like an empty lot. You know, this is why you're really watching the movie is like the cool car shed, right? And there's like, you know, like like earlier, and it's going from inside the car outside and all kinds of cool angles. And there's this cameraman on the inside who's definitely like vomiting as soon as the takes done. Yeah, because they're they're showing the cutaways. And it's being filmed from the back seat. You can see clearly that KG is driving. And there's somebody else in the passenger seat. And so yeah, the guy from the in the back just like, oh, I should have eaten all that sushi before I filmed this film by Michael J Fox back there. Like it's like, I got sick watching it too.

52:22But after you had all that entire like six minutes of driving, he's like, get all that. Yeah, it basically pieces out. Yeah. Yeah, it's the most like bad-ass thing ever, because he's like, let me show you how it's done. It doesn't tell him anything. It's not a single word. It just expects you to like watch him do all this shit. Yeah, watch and learn, jump. Yeah. And he's like, all right, you're on your own. Good luck. Exactly. Yeah. Imagine if that's how old Ben did things. He was just like, all right, I'm going to go fuck some stuff up for a second. You get all that. Yeah. All right. You get all that. All right. Yeah. I'm going to go kill like 30 stormtroopers. Pay attention. It's like the crusty the clown bit. One of my favorites where he comes into the studio to record the voiceover. And he just bangs out all his lines and leaves and they're like, all right, crusty, we're ready to start recording. But I was about to boom. That's how you do it. Yeah, he's gone. Car screech. Yep. Classic. Yeah. Oh, so good. So,

53:22now that Takaheer is taking everything he's learned at the track and from his mentor, he finally challenges his rival, Sawaki, to a race. It's go time, motherfucker. Yeah. So we get we get the the final big race scene of the film. Again, it's a short film. Our nine minutes doesn't waste a lot of time. So feels like feels like an anime episode, like an OVA or something because, you know, it's kind of a self-concene story gets to the point pretty quick, you know, so you've got a couple of good action scenes punctuated with good dialogue scenes and story. Yeah. And the, you know, the fun character kind of moments, we need to got to have those. Yeah. So especially we've got to say after what's his face died, we got that anime trope where like you even commented while we were watching, like this feels very formulaic for how an anime would follow. Totally. Where like it's whenever was his face died.

54:24Sorry, I'm terrible with names. But then you're like, we're in the flashback scene, you know, the like a Tory flashback moment. Yeah, because you're seeing the flashback footage of them, like in slow motion, you know, doing things, enjoying life, you know, and the main characters just sitting there just like, you know, he's he's lost, you know, yes, he's lost a big part of himself. And after he said that and I kind of shifted my perspective, I'm like, yeah, this actually does feel just like a live action sort of anime. Totally. So the story that we're watching here. Yeah, exactly. So, and I don't think it's a bad thing. I mean, the way it's done, it's like it you can see that this is a particular formula that seems to work, right? So. Right. Why not? I mean, it kind of feels like how nowadays, you and I, we tend to get excited where like this feels like a video game sort of storyline. Like that's awesome. It feels like maybe they were trying to get parallels back then, you know, anime was cool with popular. Let's make things feel a little more like anime. Yeah, totally. Yeah. Well, and also again, it's, you know, there's a lot of people that are probably that we're still in the street racing at the time. And so this is probably

55:25a way to kind of try to reach out and say, hey, you know, don't do this. Yeah. But also too, they want to make more movies. And the first one was banned. So you got to do something to not get banned, I guess. Yeah, like you want to not have a movie that's lambasted by the public, you know, for its message, but you also want to make some money off of this too. You want to make more movies. So obviously, that seemed to work because there's four more after this. But all that being said, feels like anime. And I think that's for the better. Totally, totally. So at this point, yeah, Takahiro just destroys his rival. It just just gone. And I think if I remember right, it was not even close. Yeah, he like leaves him in the dust and like halfway through the race, like, well, I guess I think they filmed it and like it's framed in such a way where like someone pulls through the finish line and you're like, oh, yeah, our dude was so far ahead. How the fuck is this guy pulling the one? Right. Yeah. But then, yeah. So so walkie arrives back at his

56:29sort of camp with his followers, right? And they're all celebrating like, yeah, you won. Yeah, awesome. And he's looking for Takahiro doesn't see him. But here he comes off of the other exit ramp. He's coming down the opposite way. And he pulls up and so walkie gets out. And he's just like, yeah, why'd you quit halfway? Yeah, why'd you quit halfway? And he's like, I mean, I won. No, he said because I defeated myself. Yeah, I won, but I defeated myself. Yeah, yeah. And he's like, you could tell he's defeated. Like he's definitely internally struggle because he kind of understands, yeah, I mean, shit, my best friend died for just this. Like, what has it all been for? That's, yeah, that's that point where he realizes like the futility of it all. And then he has this actual opportunity to one, avoid all this danger and things like that. But also, rise the occasion of the professional he's trying to strive to be, you know, be better than and

57:30also honor his fallen friends wishes by taking it like moving on with the skills. Yeah, yeah. And it's honoring it's honoring his friend, you know, in the best way that he can. Yeah, it's a nice like to listen to finally, you know, I think they set it up nicely to achieve both right there. Oh, for sure. Yeah. And there's a, I think there's a great line at this point when Tawaki said something like he's like, yeah, but I won. So on the champion, he's like, well, if that's, if that makes you feel better or something like that. What does he say? He's like, it's basically like the attitude I was like, if you say so, yeah, yeah, I keep telling yourself that. That's, that's fine. Yeah. And so many words. That's what he said. He's something like that. Yeah. So, yeah, he's he's defeated himself, basically. And just kind of realized it. So I think he says, maybe like, sure, you did, there's something like that. Yeah. Yeah. There's he realizes like there's no such thing as street racing glory. You know, so. So in an attempt to redeem himself

58:30and make up for his broken promises, Takahiro returns to the circuit where Kichis Ujia shows the youngster the real path to racing glory. So this movie then basically ends with both Skyline GTRs chasing each other around the racetrack. And you basically get, you know, much like Gran Turismo, you get a full basically full replay of this entire race. And it's just two Skylines just pro drivers drifting every corner and neck and neck neck neck racing each other. It's super awesome, especially if you're into this kind of stuff. And honestly, like, I'm not, but like, this shit is exciting. Yeah, you got hyped. Yeah. Real racing. And I don't know if it's just like different, you know, movie making standards or things like that, but it feels like there's actual just real danger going on here. And the takes are really long, especially on this final race. Like they do a whole lot of these stunts or whatever you like the racing maneuvers all in one shot. Oh, absolutely. Yeah. Well, again, I mean, these are, these are pro drivers that

59:32are doing the driving for these movies. So they know their shit. Like freaking right. They do. Yeah. So it's pretty awesome. Then you get just this giant race at the end and movie basically ends with a Takahiro kind of overtaking Keiichi to basically win the race while Junitsu's wife Nozomi waves the checkered flag. So he definitely answers the question. Like, did you get all that he has learned from? Yeah. The student has surpassed the master, right? At this point. So that's kind of the, that's the other message of the film, right? Besides the don't, don't do illegal street racing, but you know, a spider to be, you know, better than you're, than you're currently doing. Yeah, push, push the envelope, you know, a honder scale and put them in a direction that matters. Yeah. And I think that's, that's the benefit of having Suchi had come up with this, you know, for the film because, you know, at its core, it's semi-autobiographical for him. So you can't help but think that

1:00:36somebody probably did that to him as well. And then he was able to go on and be a programmer from there, you know, it's kind of like the, the Gran Turismo movie that came out a couple of years ago. And they had those competitions for a long time online. And there was the kid that had played Gran Turismo so much that he became a professional race driver. Yeah, like dead ass for real happen. Yeah. Yeah. And he placed, I think, in a couple of races like he did, he did decently well. Like he didn't, I don't think he won like first place, but he placed and was, was well respected for getting where he got. That is impressive, man. That's off. Yeah. So that movie's good too. Again, there's like, if you like car movies, I think there's a lot of good modern ones out there. Gran Turismo was really good. Ford versus Ferrari was excellent. The F1 movie that I want to see. Yeah, that movie was excellent. That's based on a game series too, though, the F1 series. I've never played any of them, but their consistent releases all the time.

1:01:39So I haven't either, but that movie, like whenever I went, it was just kind of bored. When I came out, it was the new thing. And I went in there and it just said, like, music by Hans Zimmer. And I was like, that's fucking go. This is going to be sick. Like we're just Hans Zimmer doing all the racing stuff. Yeah, I'm going to be locked in. Yeah, I was dude. They get beat locked yet. Yeah. Yeah. Basically, I think if I remember right, the people that produced the F1 movie basically saw the success of Gran Turismo. And they're like, well, we've got a racing series too. So let's just make a movie. And then they end up getting like Brad Pitt. And it's been a really good fucking movie. Yeah, we can do that too with Brad Pitt and the other guy, the blackjack and hookers. Yeah. So, so yeah, that's that's Chuto, Costco, trial two. So what do you think? Having gone into this movie with zero expectations, not being able to guess what this movie was like, what did you think of the film? I actually, I really enjoyed it. It's not like a genre of mine that I carried to like, you know, buy and have off like, you know, on demand. So I wouldn't say it's like good enough to be a buy,

1:02:41but I thoroughly enjoyed the movie. Like it's again, it's relatable, it's hardwarming. It doesn't take a whole lot of your afternoon. No, it's for the time you invest into it. No, it's just a real nice, well-paced story. Yeah, I think it's a very solid film. I think this is kind of it's kind of the epitome of what you would find back in the day at like Sun Coast or Blackbuster or Hollywood. If you just didn't know what you were going to see, but then you picked up like the box and you're like, oh, this looks kind of cool. Right. Like I'll check this out. Like if you're just trying to get a, you know, that's for me, this feels like something if I'm going to get a wide swath in movies to just, you know, get a bunch of genres to see what everyone's into. You know, this is going to make the list for, you know, one of like the more action he's sort of genres. The hard part is like 20 years ago when DVDs were first coming out, movies like this were hard to find domestically sometimes because they would, the titles would get changed or in

1:03:43localization like something would happen and it would be different, right? These movies were on a DVD set and I believe the, I believe it was like Megalopolis Expressway trial. I think it was one of the names. And then I think at one point it was released as freeway speedway. So it was one of those, you know, as you, as you bring it over and localize it, you know, obviously nobody at the time knew what a chuteau Costco trial would be because nobody was, nobody here was familiar with the chuteau Expressway. You know, so it's like, how do you localize it? You know, but again, I think that's the, that's the appeal in the modern age of looking for these things because you can search for something based on its original title and probably find it easier than going into a store and asking the clerk for some ridiculous weird niche movie that they have no idea what you're talking about. Yeah, they're not going to know. No. And wow, who did think they had ever made six of these,

1:04:45you know, like they struggle like with this tiny little race car. But who would have thought they made what nine freaking Fast and Furious movies to make them. Yeah, yeah, it's a good point. Yeah, I can't wait till probably, I don't like 10 years now, probably when they're all like Fast and Furious, like in a nursing home with like rascal scooters. I think we're scooters with spoilers on them. We were bullshit about this with in the movie too. Like you said, they got to go to space. Oh, yeah, every franchise has to go to space. So yeah, the Fast and Furious in space. Yep. And we needed to get a Mario Kart Rainbow Road crossover wall. Or they're doing Fast and Furious satellite drift. Yeah. Yeah. And maybe one of the main characters dies because he tries to do the shortcut. Oh, yeah, without a mushroom or something. Yeah. Yeah. And it's like a real touching, tear-jerking moment because a main character dies. Falling off Rainbow Road. Rainbow Road. Yeah. Yeah. He's talking to my family, family. Well, no, that could be the thing. Then we see like lack of two pulling him up. And it's just

1:05:46Vindy. So he's like, family. He just spawns on the track, wins the race. Another ball dude for the series. Like pretty much. Yeah. Sooner or later, they are all end up going to be balled non-rascals and racing through a nursing home at 4 p.m. for apple pie. So coming soon. Tokie, this is Fast and Furious. Lack of two drift. Oh, Lack of two drift. Yeah. That's good. That's good. Nursing home drift. Bingo. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. They write themselves at this point. Pretty much. Yeah. You just get an AI and write it. So, you know, can't be much worse. Yeah. What are your what are your final thoughts on? I enjoy this movie quite a bit. Again, because it's only an hour or 10 minutes, hour and nine minutes, whatever. So not a time wasted at all. I think it's good for backgrounding or just if you're a fan, because just the sheer authenticity of the car scenes is what I really enjoy about it. The race is the street racing scenes at night. Even the practice shots of just the whole movie is

1:06:49basically one giant R32 Skyline GTR commercial. But I don't have a problem with that. So you really just it's just an hour of a professional race driver just drifting a car around the track. And that's cool. And seriously, for whatever reason, I can't explain it because as I've said a dozen times, I don't give shit about cars, but it's like it puts you in a fucking trance, like watching like a skilled car driver, especially on like the first person or the the freeway shots. Like you're just literally in a trance, just like you cannot look away. Yeah. And I like that there's no music during those scenes. Like you can just focus on the the driving and the engine sounds. And you really just get you get pulled into it. You know, it's really really well executed stuff. Yeah, it's just a vibe. So I think it's cool. So this would be a buy for me. But again, I'm more of a fan of this stuff. But you know, I think even if like you said, you're not a car guy. But if you enjoy like a good movie, you really like get you pulled in, this might be your ticket. Yeah. So without needing to appreciate all the

1:07:56racing culture going on, it's still it's there. You could you could dig into that and really deep dive and really get a lot out of this. But at its core, like it's just a solid film, I think. Exactly. But again, if you're if you're a fan of Tokio Extreme racer, check that game out. That game's awesome. You know, dig into the history of this stuff with Midnight Club and Gran Turismo and all those things. If you're if you're into games because if you're into racing games too, because you know, it's just cool. It's it's a lost art and some of these cars that no longer exist. It's a way to at least kind of simulate what they probably felt like driving them. And that's pretty cool. Yeah. And that's all I guess all you can really ask for. If you're into that, if you're looking for that car culture stuff, get them one that captures it well. And yeah, you know, there's can draw people into that. But it's also just a movie that has nice relatable story. I got some good action to it. Well, we'll paste with the heartwarming

1:08:59scenes with the characters interacting with each other. So yeah, a lot going on here. A lot to left. Good stuff. So so yeah, that's it for my pick this week. So I think we're going to be off next week and then probably do a show after that. So that would be your pick. So and I have a you got cooked up for us. Weird one for you. I'm not going to tell you what it is. I like our random episode, but you've been centipede. Well, I think we're banned already just for you and thinking about that movie. No, there's a few fans that would probably be all about it. Both of them. Both of them stitched together. No, I do have a theme. So I guess I'll I will not confirm or deny until we're on air again. But I'll give you something that you can stew on for a little while. Yeah. You at some point in our tenure here in this generation video production, you showed me very early work by this director. Peter Jackson. Not going to confirm nor deny. But you showed me some early work by a director. And I want to show you the very first thing

1:10:02that I I ever saw by this director. And it could not be any more like it's so so different than what you showed me. So heavenly creatures. I'm not going to confirm nor deny nothing. Oh, man. All right. Now now I'm going to have to do some research. So yeah. So you're the answer wheel is going up. Good stuff. Dude, if you guess it though, I will probably shit my pants. Okay. I could live on the podcast. Well, we'll pause. And then okay, that's yeah, I'm not going to let everyone suffer for that. But that's probably for the best. Otherwise, you know, you'd just be sitting here. Just look for that. Yeah, it's what I'm increasingly looking forward to the boy I think about it because there's no way in hell you saw this movie. Okay. Interesting. Hmm. All right. Well, stay tuned. Stay tuned for that. So uh, but yeah, anyway, uh, so this was, uh, so the Chuto Crosco trial two tonight. Good pick.

1:11:03Good pick. Thank you so much. I'm glad you enjoyed it. I enjoyed this one as well. So, I thought we would close out with the, uh, the theme song here, um, which I believe, I believe it's, the title is mega subite, which is, uh, eyes are everything by Saurie Saito from her 1989 album, Lady. Let's get it. So we're going to do that. So, uh, meanwhile, uh, for generation video, I've been Wes. I've been Rhett. Until next time, be kind, rewind.

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