Truck Rascals: Another Odyssey of Momojiro

1978 1h 43m JA

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9.0

MASTERPIECE

★9.0TMDB · 1

ActionComedyRomance

Synopsis

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Hoping to romance an alien, Momojiro meets beautiful animal trainer Eriko instead. Then he and Jonathan get drawn into her old friend's fraud.

“Some stories are better left unspoiled.”

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Cast

Bunta Sugawara
Kin'ya Aikawa
Masumi Harukawa
Mieko Harada
Mitsuo Senda
Takuzō Kawatani
Kirin Kiki
Ako
Marie

Credits

Behind the camera

Director: Norifumi Suzuki
Writers: Nobuaki Nakajima
Languages: Japanese
Countries: Japan

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ERA

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48 years old — old enough to be someone's favourite childhood film.

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2 / 7

CRAFT

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Part of the "Truck Rascals" — so the characters or world continue elsewhere.

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3 / 7

RUNTIME

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Lean credit list — fewer than 30 people officially credited.

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4 / 7

DIRECTOR

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Directed by Norifumi Suzuki, shot by Masahiko Iimura. Note their partnership — DPs and directors often return to each other across a career.

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5 / 7

CAST

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Bunta Sugawara and Kin'ya Aikawa and Masumi Harukawa carry the top of the cast.

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6 / 7

WILD

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IMDB entry: tt0360093 — still the authoritative cross-reference for credits and trivia.

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7 / 7

WILD

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Only 1 TMDB ratings — you're getting ahead of the curve on this one.

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The take

Norifumi Suzuki directs. Masahiko Iimura behind the camera. Produced in Japan. Dialogue in Japanese.

Trivia

Things worth knowing

148 years old — old enough to be someone's favourite childhood film.
2Part of the "Truck Rascals" — so the characters or world continue elsewhere.
3Lean credit list — fewer than 30 people officially credited.
4Directed by Norifumi Suzuki, shot by Masahiko Iimura. Note their partnership — DPs and directors often return to each other across a career.
5Bunta Sugawara and Kin'ya Aikawa and Masumi Harukawa carry the top of the cast.
6IMDB entry: tt0360093 — still the authoritative cross-reference for credits and trivia.
7Only 1 TMDB ratings — you're getting ahead of the curve on this one.

The technical file

Cinematography: Masahiko Iimura
Runtime: 103 min · 1h 43m
Status: Released
Original language: JA
IMDB: Truck Rascals: Another Odyssey of Momojiro (1978)

Part of

Truck Rascals

Torakku Yarō (トラック野郎) is a series of ten Japanese comedy-action films produced by Toei and released from 1975 to 1979. All ten films in the series were directed by Noribumi Suzuki and starred Bunta Sugawara as Momojiro Hoshi ("Ichibanboshi" or "first star") and Kinya Aikawa as Kinzo Matsushita, also known as "Jonathan". The title Torakku Yaro means "truck guys" or "truck rascals", and the films involve two truckers and their various escapades as they travel around Japan in highly decorated trucks.

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Norifumi Suzuki

Production companies

Who made it

Toei Company
JP

Key crew

Release history · US

When it landed

Theatrical1978-08-12

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