# Maniac Driver (2021)

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**Original title**: *マニアック・ドライバー*
**Runtime**: 76 min
**Genres**: Horror, Thriller, Crime
**Directed by**: Kurando Mitsutake
**Written by**: Kurando Mitsutake
**Starring**: Tomoki Kimura, Iori Kogawa, Saryu Usui, Ayumi Kimito, Kiichi Sonobe, Yoshiki Kondō

> *I Warned You Not to Take a Taxi Tonight*

## Synopsis (in-house rewrite)

Narrow midnight road, neon’s sickly glow bleeding over wet asphalt.

A masked motorist trails a lone pedestrian at silent speed, headlights cutting like scalpels through the dark.

Kim Newman once called J-horror’s car fetish the perfect nightmare geometry.

**Mood tags**: 3am-cult, dread, neon-soaked

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