Tag Archives: cedric

Friday Video: Shakotan Boogie, The Movie

Posted on January 29, 2010 by Ben Hsu

Don your headbands, hang your friends out your side windows and get ready for Shakotan Boogie. In 1987 Japan apparently made a movie out of the manga that celebrates the bosozoku lyfe. Plot points include cross-cultural drag racing that ends … Continue reading →

Posted in honda, nissan, toyota, Video Games | Tagged bosozoku, cedric, crown, datsun, fairlady z, gloria, gurachan, nissan, s130, Shakotan Boogie, skyline, soarer, toyota | 7 Comments

Friday Video: The Original Japanese Version of Speed

Posted on January 15, 2010 by Ben Hsu

A runaway city bus careens through the streets after the driver is shot. The police can’t do anything for fear of triggering the explosive device stowed on board. Only one renegade cop can leap onto the bus from another moving … Continue reading →

Posted in datsun, nissan, Video Games | Tagged cedric, datsun, hino, japanese cop show, nissan, seibu keisatsu | 9 Comments

Classic Japanese Show & Shine, Brisbane, Australia

Posted on December 8, 2009 by Ben Hsu

A couple of months ago our friends in the southern hemisphere held their own gathering of nostalgics. And because everything is topsy-turvy down there, they occupied an entirely different circle in the J-tin Venn diagram. Look at the photo above. … Continue reading →

Posted in datsun, isuzu, mazda, mitsubishi, nissan, toyota | Tagged b110, bellet, cedric, cedric 1900, compagno spider, daihatsu, datsun, datsun 1200, isuzu, mazda, nissan, prince motors, prince skyline, rx-2, rx-3, skyline, sunny | 3 Comments

Friday Video: Bollywood Love in Tokyo

Posted on November 20, 2009 by Ben Hsu

The 1966 Indian movie Love in Tokyo contains this toe-tappin’ Bollywood song and dance number that meanders through the streets of 1960s Tokyo. As a result, cameras inadvertently captured the very beginning of the era of Japanese prosperity in which … Continue reading →

Posted in nissan, toyota, Video Games | Tagged bellel, bollywood, cedric, corona, crown, datsun, hillman minx, honda, isuzu, love in tokyo, mazda, mitsubishi, nissan, prince, s30, s40, sambar, subaru, toyoace, toyopet, toyota | 5 Comments

Friday Video: Nissan Skyline Japan vs. Ford Torino

Posted on November 13, 2009 by Ben Hsu

For this week we have another Seibu Keisatsu clip pitting Daimon’s KGC210 Nissan Skyline Japan against a Blue Oval product. This chase is almost too painful to watch, as the ’71 Ford Torino barrels through a used car parking lot … Continue reading →

Posted in datsun, nissan, Video Games | Tagged bluebird, c210 skyline, cedric, datsun, ford torino, japanese cop show, japanese police drama, kgc210, nissan, seibu keisatsu, skyline, skyline japan, violet | 8 Comments

Nostalgics Galore at Japan Meet Norway

Posted on September 10, 2009 by Ben Hsu

Is there anything that looks more UFO-ey than the rump end of a kujira Crown wagon? This goon and other nostalgics gathered yesterday, 9/9/09, for Japan Meet Norway. It comes hot on the heels of Swiss and Finnish J-tin congregations, … Continue reading →

Posted in events, mazda, nissan, toyota | Tagged 510, 810, 929, b110, bluebird, cedric, celica, cherry, crown, datsun, japan meet norway, luce, mazda, nissan, rx-4, sunny, toyota | 5 Comments

Friday Video: Abunai Deka Cedric 430 Chase

Posted on July 10, 2009 by Ben Hsu

In this clip from 80s Japanese cop show Abunai Deka, a Nissan Cedric 430 unmarked patrol car gives chase to a Gloria Van of the same generation. As you can see, this series doesn’t take itself as seriously as, say, … Continue reading →

Posted in JNC Theater | Tagged 430, abunai deka, cedric, datsun, gloria, japanese cop show, nissan, wagons | 3 Comments