Hot Road

Hot Road (2014)

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Teenager Kazuki Miyaichi has always felt unloved by her mother due the circumstances surrounding her birth. Because she harbors anxiety and perceives herself as being worthless to others, she engages in acts of juvenile delinquency. One day, a transfer student from Yokohama named Eri introduces her to Hiroshi Haruyama, a reckless youth who’s a member of the “Nights” motorcycle gang. Kazuki finds herself increasingly drawn to Hiroshi over time, but he soon becomes leader of the Nights and gets caught up in a conflict with a rival gang.

Date of release
2014-08-16
TMDB
6.8 / 10 (14)
Runtime
1h 59m
Genres
Drama
Director
Takahiro Miki

Casting

Interesting facts

  • Based on: Hot Road

Hot Road is a 2014 Japanese romance film directed by Takahiro Miki from a screenplay by Tomoko Yoshida, based on Taku Tsumugi's shōjo manga of the same title, which was serialized from 1986 to 1987. It stars Rena Nōnen and Hiroomi Tosaka, with Ryōhei Suzuki, Rina Ōta, Yukiyoshi Ozawa, and Yoshino Kimura in supporting roles. The story is of a romance between a troubled girl played by Rena Nōnen, who received no love from her remarrying mother, and a Bōsōzoku's future leader played by Hiroomi Tosaka. The theme song of the film is Yutaka Ozaki's "Oh My Little Girl".

Production

Though manga Hot Road has been a hit in the 80s, Taku Tsumugi refused to make a feature film version of Hot Road many times because she thought everyone were entitled to have their own version of Hot Road in mind, and no one else could touch it.

To prepare the film, Taku Tsumugi supervised the script of herself, and Rena Nōnen dyed her hair brown for the first time in her life to portrayed Kazuki. To rebuild the world of the 1980s, Art director Hidefumi Hanatani got his inspiration from the original manga and put things that were popular in 1980s in the home Kazuki lived. He also use the less possibility of ornament to present the "inorganic" home where Kazuki lived with her mother.

Hot road began shooting in November 2013 and finishing shooting in December. It was mainly shot in the area around Enoshima, mainly Kamakura and Fujisawa, Kanagawa. Though the winter on Enoshima was cold, actors had to put on clothes for summer and eat ice cream to finish those scenes that happened in summer.

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