Released in 1971, the film 'Shadow of the Highway' was produced and starred in by Jiro Tamiya and directed by Jun Fukuda. As the tagline 'A sports car racing north from Kagoshima to Hokkaido, slicing vertically through Japan' suggests, this suspenseful action film features a Mitsubishi Galant GTO speeding across the screen from start to finish. It's a road movie often compared to the New Hollywood classic 'Vanishing Point. '
