Hi Jasper,<br><br>The liner notes for the Hairpin Circus DVD mention that the Macao Grand Prix scenes were "essential for the completion of the film" (perhaps it was featured in Itsuki Hiroyuki's serialized novella on which the film was based?). Toho were slow to permit the Macao shoot, so with the race impending, subsidiary Tokyo Eiga put up provisional funds to make it possible. The producers eventually received permission from Toho after the scenes were shot. It was made for 45 million yen, which was the lowest bracket for a Toho film at the time.<br>
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<br>Does anyone know anything about the director Kiyoshi Nishimura, more specifically, his two films <i><span style="font-weight:normal">Red
Target</span></i><span style="font-weight:normal"> (</span><i><span style="font-weight:normal">Bara
no hyoteki</span></i><span style="font-weight:normal">) and </span><i>Highway
Circuit</i> a.k.a. <i>Hairpin Circus</i> (<i>Heapin saakasu</i>), both from 1972. It seems to me, flicking through the Unijapan catalogues of that year, that they were both shot in Hong Kong/Macao, but I'm wandering if this was actually the case.<div>
The reason I ask is that the Unijapan catalogue mentions both were shot in Eastman Color, but from this period, almost all of Toho's films were shot in Fujicolor (except those such as <span style="font-weight:normal">Shinoda’s
</span><span style="font-weight:normal"><i>The Scandalous Adventures
of Buraiken </i>that were shot in Panavision) - so there must be a reason they were shot in Eastmancolor, and if they were shot on location in Hong Kong (Shaw Brothers used Eastman Color, for example), this this would sort of make sense. Or maybe I'm barking up a completely nonsensical tree here...</span></div>
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</p><div><br></div><div><span style="font-size:10pt">My n</span>ew book, <b><i>The </i></b><span style="font-size:10pt"><b><i>Historical Dictionary of Japanese Cinema</i></b>,</span><span style="font-size:10pt"> is out now from<a href="https://rowman.com/ISBN/9780810857957" target="_blank"> Scarecrow Press.</a></span></div>
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