Dead Heat (デッドヒート) 36 years old

Makoto is the driver of a rag-tag Formula X racing team competing in the bottom rung D-Class, with aspirations of one day making it to A-Class. When a mysterious benefactor sees potential in them, he offers his engineering services and shiny new engine to help them compete in the Open Cup. This yearly event is open to all classes and the winner automatically earns A-Class standing.

Credits

Hōchū Ōtsuka as Saburou

Kazuki Yao as Makoto

Ryusuke Oobayashi as Gou

Masako Katsuki as Maria

Hiroshi Hashimoto as Worker

Kenichi Ogata as Kourigashi (voice)

Dead Heat Cast

Name	Character
Hōchū Ōtsuka He was 33, now 69 years old	as Saburou
Kazuki Yao He was 28, now 64 years old	as Makoto
Ryusuke Oobayashi	as Gou
Masako Katsuki She was 27, now 64 years old	as Maria
Hiroshi Hashimoto	as Worker
Kenichi Ogata He was 45, now 82 years old	as Kourigashi (voice)
Chieko Honda She was 24, 49 years old when she died	as Kaori (voice)
Kazuyuki Sogabe He was 39, 57 years old when he died	as Natsu Sawai
Naoki Makishima He was 24, now 61 years old	as Policeman
Toshiharu Sakurai He was 23, now 60 years old	as Yoshio

Dead Heat Crew

Name	Department
Katsuji Misawa as Director of Photography.	Camera
Shigemi Ikeda as Art Direction. He was 33 (now 70) years old	Art
Kenji Uchida as Producer. He was 15 (now 52) years old	Production
Akinori Endo as Screenplay. He was 28 (now 65) years old	Writing
Koichi Chiba as Sound Director. He was 56 (70) years old when He died	Sound
Toshifumi Kawase as Director. He was 29 (now 66) years old	Directing
Toshifumi Kawase as Storyboard. He was 29 (now 66) years old	Writing

Dead Heat (36 years)

Release day: Friday, August 07, 1987
Runtime: 31 minutes