Crazy Thunder Road is, for my money, Ishii Sogo’s real debut feature film. Yes, Panic High School came out a couple of years earlier, but that was co-directed with Sawada Yukihiro. What’s more, it was also an early work that only very vaguely hinted at the style that Ishii would arrive at with this film: most of the qualities that Ishii’s work is commonly associated with only came to the forefront with Crazy Thunder Road.
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Try and Be Grateful 