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| Adrenaline Drive | |
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 Film poster | |
| Directed by | Shinobu Yaguchi |
| Written by | Shinobu Yaguchi |
| Produced by | Kiyoshi Mizokami |
| Starring |
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| Cinematography | Takeshi Hamada |
| Edited by | Shinobu Yaguchi |
| Music by | Seiichi Yamamoto |
Production companies | Adrenaline Drive Committee Kindai Eiga Kyōkai |
Release date |
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Running time | 111 minutes |
| Country | Japan |
| Language | Japanese |
Adrenaline Drive (Japanese: アドレナリン・ドライブ, Hepburn: Adorenarin doraibu) is a 1999 Japanese comedy film directed by Shinobu Yaguchi.[1]
Plot
[edit]A young milquetoast car rental company driver named Satoru Suzuki (Masanobu Ando) and a mousy nurse named Shizuko Sato (Hikari Ishida) are both in dire need of a confidence boost. Through a string of unbelievable events they meet and then fall into a wealth of yakuza money. They are chased by the monstrous yakuza as well as his stooge like young henchmen.
Cast
[edit]- Masanobu Andō as Satoru Suzuki
- Hikari Ishida as Shizuko Sato
- Tomoharu Hasegawa as Kawakami
- Yutaka Matsushige as Kuroiwa
- Yu Tokui as Yamamoto
- Yōji Tanaka as Bus Driver
- Takuji Suzuki as Hosoya
- Tarō Suwa as Shimada
- Koichi Ueda as Arakawa
- Tadashi Sakata as Tanaka
- Shinji Rokkaku as Ueno
- Kazue Tsunogae as Head Nurse
- Kanta Ogata as Police Officer
- Yoshitaka Ōtsuka as Yankee
- Akira Saito as Paramedic
- Kirina Mano as Nurse
Release
[edit]Adrenaline Drive was released in Japan in 1999 and was shown at the 1999 Toronto International Film Festival.[1] It received a limited release in the United States on May 5, 2000.[1] The film grossed a total of $77,313 on its American wide release.[2]
Reception
[edit]Adrenaline Drive was well received by Western critics on its initial release. The film ranking website Rotten Tomatoes reported that 76% of critics had given the film positive reviews, based upon a sample of 21.[3] At Metacritic, which assigns a normalized rating out of 100 to reviews from mainstream critics, the film has received an average score of 69, based on 24 reviews.[4]
Notes
[edit]- 1 2 3 Crow, Jonathan. "Adrenaline Drive". Allmovie. Rovi Corporation. Retrieved November 4, 2013.
- ↑ "Adorenarin doraibu". The Numbers. Retrieved November 4, 2013.
- ↑ "Adorenarin doraibu – Rotten Tomatoes". Rotten Tomatoes. IGN Entertainment, Inc. Retrieved November 4, 2013.
- ↑ "Adorenarin doraibu". Metacritic. CNET Networks, Inc. Retrieved November 4, 2013.
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