Team DANKAI are a group of drivers set to compete in the Paris-Dakar Rally, an off-road endurance race spanning thousands of miles and multiple continents. Prior to the event, team leader Mizuki (Nenji Kobayashi) is ordered by their sponsor to add popular celebrity Ryuichi Yoshii (Goro Ohashi) to the roster for publicity. This exacerbates DANKAI’s resentments and baggage. Needing a steady hand to mediate dispute and navigate their support vehicle, Mizuki recruits legendary, retired mechanic and driver Eiji Honma (Ken Takakura) to the team. Honma soon discovers his ex-wife Kei (Ayumi Ishida) is also participating in the rally, alongside her current husband, the bullfighter Juan Vázquez (Tomas Arana). He is also accompanied by Yuko Takei (Junko Sakurada), a singer who followed Yoshii from Japan.
Length 174 minutes
Ken Takakura | Junko Sakurada | Philippe Leroy | Nenji Kobayashi | Goro Ohashi | Ryûdô Uzaki | Shin Takuma | Goro Kataoka | Kenji Isomura | Jean Claude Robe | Hiroshi Fuse | Tsutomu Tomura | Yuzuru Nishimura | Beppe Chierici | Tomas Arana | Ayumi Ishida | Hideharu Otaki | Kazue Tsunogae | Mayumi Asaka | Kôjirô Kusanagi | Haruko Kato | Takeshi Ôbayashi | Shinshô Nakamaru | Shinji Kanai | Richard De Burnchurch | Carlo Monni | Sokyu Fujita | Masahiko Sakata | Satoru Saitô | Makoto Kakeda | Takami Morioka | Satoru Fukasaku | Masumi Okada | Hideji Ôtaki | Mariko Fuji | Yōsuke Natsuki | Alain Cuny | Jean-Claude Drouot | Ryô Ikebe | Lazzaro Calcagno