
174 minutes
5/18/1988
Team DANKAI are set to compete in the Paris-Dakar Rally, an off-road endurance race spanning thousands of miles and multiple continents. Prior to the event, DANKAI leader Mizuki is ordered by their sponsor to add popular celebrity Ryuichi Yoshii to the roster for publicity. This exacerbates DANKAI's resentments and baggage. Needing a steady hand to mediate dispute and navigate their support vehicle, Mizuki recruits legendary retired mechanic/driver Eiji Honma to the team. Soon Honma discovers his ex-wife Kei is also participating in the rally, alongside her current husband, the bullfighter Antonio Vázquez. Honma's truck also comes to include stowaway passenger Yuko Takei, Yoshii's pop star girlfriend who is trying to salvage their relationship.

Ken Takakura
as Eiji Honma

Junko Sakurada
as Yuko Takei

Philippe Leroy
as Toto Luciano

Nenji Kobayashi
as Mizuki
Goro Ohashi
as Ryuichi Yoshii

Ryudo Uzaki
as Katsuragi

Shin Takuma
as Itoi

Goro Kataoka
Kenji Isomura
Jean Claude Robe

Hiroshi Fuse
as Yasu
Tsutomu Tomura
Yuzuru Nishimura

Beppe Chierici

Tomas Arana
as Antonio Vázquez

Ayumi Ishida
as Kei
Hideharu Otaki
as Hikawa

Kazue Tsunogae

Mayumi Asaka
as Erika Yokouchi

Kōjirō Kusanagi

Haruko Katō
as Eiji’s mother

Takeshi Ōbayashi

Shinsho Nakamaru
Shinji Kanai
Richard De Burnchurch

Carlo Monni

Sokyu Fujita

Masahiko Sakata

Satoru Saito
Makoto Kakeda
Takami Morioka

Satoru Fukasaku

Masumi Okada
as Ozaki

Hideji Ōtaki
Mariko Fuji

Yōsuke Natsuki
as Mitsubishi Citizen's Director

Alain Cuny
as Don Macine

Jean-Claude Drouot

Ryō Ikebe
as Nakazawa
Lazzaro Calcagno