A daredevil driver is determined to compete in Redline, the most popular race in the galaxy. The race only occurs every five years, but in order to participate he must overcome the mafia, the government and even love.
Sound
Engines that feel like they're destroying your speakers.
Direction
Koike's debut feature — he storyboarded every shot himself.
Director
Takeshi Koike
Takuya Kimura
JP (voice)
Yu Aoi
Sonoshee McLaren (voice)
Tadanobu Asano
Frisbee (voice)
Takeshi Aono
Old Man Mole (voice)
Tatsuya Gashûin
Lynchman (voice)
Unsho Ishizuka
Colonel Volton (voice)
Kenta Miyake
Little Deyzuna (voice)
Yoshiyuki Morishita
Shinkai (voice)
Cho
Inuki Boss (voice)
Yoshinori Okada
Johnny Boy (voice)
Kanji Tsuda
Trava (voice)
Kenyu Horiuchi
Titan (voice)
Daisuke Gori
Gori-Rider (voice)
Koji Ishii
Machine Head (voice)
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Madhouse studio went financially underwater producing this; animators worked without guaranteed paychecks. The film bombed in Japan, becoming a cult hit entirely through international word-of-mouth.
The character designs deliberately evoke 1970s Lupin III aesthetics — Koike cut his teeth on that franchise. Old Man Mole's voice actor Takeshi Aono died shortly after; this was his final performance.
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