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Plot Summary:
The first movie in a trilogy, focusing on the battle against the Takahashi brothers. High school student Takumi Fujiwara works as a gas station attendant during the day and a delivery boy for his father's tofu shop during late nights. Little does he know that his precise driving skills and his father's modified Toyota Sprinter AE86 Trueno make him the best amateur road racer on Mt. Akina's highway. Because of this, racing groups from all over the Gunma prefecture issue challenges to Takumi to see if he really has what it takes to be a road legend.
IMDB Rating: 7.2
IMDB Votes: 396
Genere: Animation, Action, Sport
Country: Japan
Duration: 62 min
Plot tags: anime, exciting, captivating, realistic, stylized, super sentai
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IMDB Rating: 5.8
IMDB Votes: 133
Genere: Animation, Sport
Country: Japan
Duration: 65 min
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New Initial D the Movie: Legend 2 - Racer (2015)
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IMDB Rating: 7.3
IMDB Votes: 327
Genere: Animation, Sport
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Plot tags: anime, exciting, captivating, realistic, stylized, super sentai
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IMDB Rating: 7.3
IMDB Votes: 249
Genere: Animation, Action, Sport
Country: Japan
Duration: 25 min
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IMDB Rating: 7.9
IMDB Votes: 152
Genere: Animation, Action, Sport
Country: Japan
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Mt. Akina's new downhill racing hero Fujiwara Takumi prepares for the final showdown against Red Sun's unbeaten leader and Akagi's fastest driver, Takahashi Ryosuke.
IMDB Rating: 7.1
IMDB Votes: 323
Genere: Animation, Action, Sport
Country: Japan
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IMDB Rating: 7.7
IMDB Votes: 2000
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Country: Japan
Duration: 100 min
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IMDB Rating: 7.0
IMDB Votes: 427
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IMDB Rating: 7.2
IMDB Votes: 51
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Country: Japan
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IMDB Rating: 7.7
IMDB Votes: 532
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IMDB Rating: 6.9
IMDB Votes: 227
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IMDB Rating: 8.2
IMDB Votes: 2000
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Country: Japan
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IMDB Rating: 7.1
IMDB Votes: 609
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Country: Japan
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IMDB Votes: 33000
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Country: Japan
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IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 51
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Country: Japan
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IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 284
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IMDB Rating: 7.3
IMDB Votes: 2000
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IMDB Rating: 7.7
IMDB Votes: 3000
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Country: Japan
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IMDB Rating: 7.1
IMDB Votes: 538
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Country: Japan
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Takumi Fujiwara is an average 18-year old high school student with an average job as a gas station attendant, and a not-so-average hand in the family business. To help his father's tofu shop, Takumi has been delivering tofu in his father's 'Eight-Six' Trueno (known as the Toyota Corolla GT-S in the US) to a hotel at the peak of Mt. Akina (the local mountain), every night at 4 a.m. In doing so, Takumi has been unknowingly training to be the greatest mountain-pass drift-racer in all of Japan. After a freak late-night encounter with Keisuke Takahashi, the number two driver of the infamous RedSuns team, Takumi is quickly, and unwillingly plunged into a high-speed world of white-knuckle contests on the most dangerous mountain passes in the Gunma prefecture. Assisted by the local Akina Speedstars team, his slightly obnoxious friend Itsuki, his somewhat shady girlfriend Natsuke and the sage-like words of his chain-smoking, ex-racer father Bunta, he'll need all the help he can get to outwit.
IMDB Rating: 8.5
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Animation, Action, Comedy, Drama, Sport
Country: Japan
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IMDB Rating: 7.5
IMDB Votes: 17000
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Country: Japan
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IMDB Rating: 7.0
IMDB Votes: 317
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IMDB Rating: 6.9
IMDB Votes: 456
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IMDB Rating: 8.1
IMDB Votes: 1000
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IMDB Votes: 5000
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IMDB Rating: 7.4
IMDB Votes: 1000
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IMDB Votes: 9000
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IMDB Rating: 7.4
IMDB Votes: 901
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IMDB Rating: 8.2
IMDB Votes: 11000
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IGPX: Immortal Grand Prix refers to two anime series co-produced simultaneously by Cartoon Network and Production I.G. The first is a "microseries" consisting of five 5-minute episodes, and the second is a 26-episode animated series loosely related to the first. Koichi Mashimo co-wrote and directed the microseries, while Bee Train Animation and Production I.G animated it, and Bandai Entertainment acted as the North American distributor. The full-length anime series was handled by director and writer Mitsuru Hongo and was animated by Production I.G, with Bee Train returning for in-between animation. Production I.G president Mitsuhisa Ishikawa joined on as producer for the series. It was the first time he had worked on a joint U.S. Japanese production, due to the Pokémon companion franchise. The series' production was managed by Williams Street in Atlanta, Georgia. Bang Zoom! Entertainment in Burbank, California produced the English dub for the series, as well as adapted the scripts alongside Williams Street. IGPX was commended for being the first original series on Toonami. An IGPX video game was released on September 12, 2006, for the PlayStation 2.
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IMDB Votes: 290
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Duration:
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