Details

Release year: 1994

Storyline

Obsessed with the idea of owning his first car so he can have sex in it, a young man takes any job he can find and ends up in an escalating series of crazy situations.

Top credits

Directors

Takeshi Kitano

Writers

Takeshi Kitano

Cast

Duncan — Asao
Tokie Hidari — Asao's Mother
Akiji Kobayashi — Chief of World Defence Force
Shinsuke Yamane — Swordsman

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Did you know

• The blue sports car with the missing chassis wasn't road-safe and had to be towed from location to location.

• During Asao's brief acting career he plays the part of the blind samurai Zatôichi. Takeshi Kitano later went on to direct and star in a remake of Zatoichi on the Road (1963).

• Aside from Asao and several men, The "Discount King" is also mugged by American Indians, Pirate, a member of Kempei-tai, a Napoleonic Soldier, a man from Victorian England and a Samurai.