Hot Road (2014) on Netflix
Kazuki Miyaichi, fourteen, feels her mother does not love her and turns to delinquency. Eri, a transfer student from Yokohama, brings her to the Nights motorcycle gang and to Hiroshi Haruyama.
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Plot summary
Kazuki Miyaichi is fourteen and lives with her mother, who has gone on seeing Suzuki, a man Kazuki resents; the house holds no photograph of her late father, who died when she was two. Feeling unloved and unwanted, Kazuki turns to delinquency. Eri, who has transferred to her school from Yokohama, becomes her friend and takes her out at night in Shonan, where they meet the boys of the motorcycle gang Nights. There Kazuki meets Hiroshi Haruyama, sixteen. He left home after his mother remarried and does not get along with his father, works part-time at a gas station instead of attending high school, and hopes to lead the Nights one day. He and Kazuki wound each other at first; each of them feels isolated, and Kazuki is drawn into his world.
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Did you know?!Facts and trivia about Hot Road (2014)
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- Manga author Taku Tsumugi turned down feature film versions of Hot Road for more than 25 years, saying no one else could touch her story, but finally agreed after seeing Rena Nōnen in the 2012 film Karasu no Oyayubi — before Nōnen became famous with Amachan — and trusted her with the heroine's role.
- Hot Road was the first acting role for Hiroomi Tosaka, a vocalist of Sandaime J Soul Brothers. He hesitated, afraid acting would hurt his singing career, until Takahiro, a fellow vocalist who had acted in TV dramas, encouraged him.
- The shoot around Enoshima took place in winter, but the actors had to wear summer clothes and eat ice cream to complete the scenes set in summer.
- To rebuild the 1980s, art director Hidefumi Hanatani filled Kazuki's home with items taken from the original manga, and the production team rebuilt Haruyama's Honda CBR400F and CB400F motorcycles in 1980s specification with help from motorcycle shop Uematsu.
