Heh heh, whoops! I guess the Monday holiday threw us off. Here’s your belated Friday Videos, a pair of behind the scenes looks at the making of Seibu Keisatsu. These videos have embedding disabled, so clicky click on the screenshots to watch them on YouTube. (more…)
Sgt. Daimon manning a Nissan Patrol-mounted water cannon leads to a flipped Datsun 620 pickup (on Enkei Bajas – SK was sponsored by Enkei) and senseless wagon destruction. Have a good weekend!
We went with high art and how-to for the last two Friday Videos but this week is a return to the roots – more Seibu Keisatsu madness.
The video appears to be clips from two episodes spliced together. In the first one, our heroes’ R30 Skylines and S130 Fairlady Z give chase to a C230 Laurel. Look out for the rare Toyota sighting in the Nissan-sponsored series.
In the second vid, the crew pursues a 330 Cedric/Gloria through Nissan Sunny Miyagi, an actual dealership. Car carriers full of brand new Nissans become embroiled in the melee. A perfectly good B210 hatch gets its door shorn off, and the finale results in some serious cringe-inducing carnage.
Hmm, it seems that the last Friday Video, Keishichou Satsujinka, failed to generate the type of enthusiasm among Subaru and Toyota fans that Seibu Keisatsu clips instill among Nissan nuts. How about the unlikely combination of Seibu’s cast and Toyotas?
In this “remake,” a new recruit has joined the force, and with his arrival some changes are being made to the Seibu Keisatsu fleet. Instead of the usual Cedric 230 chase fodder, standard issue black-and-whites have been replaced with Toyota Chaser/Mark IIs (though an unmarked cruiser is still a Cedric 430). The end of this clip takes a turn to the surreal, but the new guy has been the spokesman for Boss Coffee for several years.
We’re not even going to begin to guess what is going on in this Seibu Keisatsu clip. All we know is that there’s a C130 Nissan Laurel being chased down by a Datsun 720 pickup and that a kenmeri Skyline makes an appearance at the end. As per Seibu Keisatsu rules, heavy Nissan and Enkei sponsorship abounds.
If there was one video, one single clip, with the Skyline Japan Machine-X, the 280ZX Super-Z, and not one but three DR30 Skyline Machine-RS pursuit cars in it, would Youtube… nay, would the fabric of the internet itself be able to withstand so much awesomeness in one place?
Will your PC stay hard, like a Sgt Daimon stare? Or will it flip over and spontaneously combust like a black and white C230 Cedric? Close all other open programs and click above to see.
While we’re on the subject of Seibu Keisatsu, did you know there was a 2004 movie that tried to remake the series for our troubled modern times? Click past the jump for more info!
Yabba dabba doo, it’s the weekend! Time for your Friday video. Here’s another gem from Seibu Keisatsu, the ass-kickingest, Nissan-wreckingest cop show around. In this clip, the bad guys bust into police HQ in a shootout reminiscent of Heat and jack some kind of police-issue armored Nissan Gloria Wagon. A massive chase ensues, with all the requisite crashes, jumps, and toppled fruit stands. As our heroes get picked off one by one, Daimon is the only one left to pursue the perps in his 230 Cedric. But it appears that this time, the criminals get away… for now.
Ready for some Detroit vs. Japan action? A C210 Skyline chasing down a 1970 Mercury Cougar, perhaps? In fact, it’s the episode of Seibu Keisatsu in which the chief adds a new car to the fleet, the Super Machine-X Skyline 2000GT-Turbo! It’s the latest in crime-fighting technology, back when a camera and a couple of computers took up the entire cabin!
And wouldn’t you know it, on its very first day in the motor pool the crew has to go after some muscle car driving bad guys. Time to break it in! The pursuit that follows takes us through a long stretch of Japanese expressway, crawling with awesome nostalgic steel.
As Kev posted before, the introduction of the Skyline on this show boosted sales so much, Nissan made a point to donate their latest models for future episodes as soon as they were released.
Whew, it’s 2:30 AM and we just got back from a ridiculously long but productive day writing articles, scoring a free desk on craigslist for the JNC office, and attending important meetings about ad sales. Just one more day until the weekend, during which we will write more articles. Time to unwind with your Friday video!
It’s a scene from Seibu Keisatsu, the ass-kickingest Japanese cop show ever. If you thought last week’s Toyota Crown wagon jumping over an exploding police car was improbable, how about an entire box van? Did we mention it was full of bad guys lobbing grenades at hapless Nissan Cedric police cruisers? There’s some glimpses of C210 and R30 Skylines too, and of course our hero Daimon arrives in a gullwing 280ZX to save the day.
If you want more Seibu Keisatsu, and we think you do, check here, here, here and here.
