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back midway up the mountain after the white knuckle grip race down it i catch my breath as the cars fly off again into the darkness my adrenaline is peaked and probably will be for some time.

One of the cross racing lads currently hanging out at the side of the road laughs and puts his thumb up.

I grin and put my thumb up too.

This lad goes by the nickname Lil Noisy.

He's tall, skinny and wearing a set of thick black glasses through the eye slot in his balaclava.

He comes over to me and starts to chat with the help of our friend who's translating.

We have a long history.

Everyone gets on.

Everyone's cars of Chris

and I think it's a very cool team.

We're number one.

What is it you love about the street racing here?

Obviously it's very illegal but you guys are all doing it all the time.

I think it's fine.

So long as we don't get caught it's fun to race with everyone.

In Japan life is quite conservative.

People follow the rules.

You guys obviously break the rules all the time.

How do you think your average person in Japan sees you guys street racers?

What do they think to you?

I'm sure it's a nuisance.

It's probably annoying.

They find it annoying.

The police are cracking down quite hard on street racing.

Are you not worried?

You might get into trouble, sent to prison, have your car taken.

Are you not scared?

Well,

there is some worry,

but having fun is more important.

We run away.

That's it.

We run away.

Can you describe what it feels like when you're racing?

How does it feel to you inside?

It's exciting.

I just get so excited.

It feels so good to be in a place where you're totally unable to think about anything else.

You're so excited, you can't think of anything else.

Kids these days don't go out, so they don't really care about cars.

Most kids think as long as it drives, anything is fine.

I want the world to know more about Japanese cars, and I want the Civix B-type engine to become more popular than turbos.

They look bad,

but

the moment the V-Tech kicks in, it feels so good.

It feels like I'm high.

That's why I love Civics.

I hate turbos though.

After this, Lil Noisy goes on to explain why he loves Honda Civic so much for about another 10 minutes.

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He was there filming all of this as I was praying for my life in the front of these Honda Civics.

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had you ever heard of like the japanese street racing scene or any of that before we did this film no not really like obviously from like popular culture like fast and furious you have like you know not i really watch those films or anything but they're still mainstream you know media that gets put out about those kind of um racing stories but no specifics about like the Kanjo specifically or Togi, like that was completely new when you sent that to me.

And especially the cultural bits that come along with that, like the style and ethos of the races, that was completely new.

What was your first impressions of them?

Like when we first met like some of the lads there with the cars,

what did you think?

Like what kind of struck you?

I think what really struck me was mainly the attitude of the drivers and that culture because you could tell that it was really out the realms of the ordinary.

I think when people engage in that kind of thing in the UK or Europe, like it's slightly more accepted.

I think in Japan, you're really an outsider if you're doing that kind of stuff.

Like it's really not accepted.

And these guys are doing something that carries a risk, you know, in terms of the law, but also like cultural risk as well that you might be looked down upon or you know, not accepted socially.

So yeah, that was like super interesting.

That came across to me straight away.

I mean, as soon as we started getting in cars and like being around them them properly the speed at which we were traveling was suddenly like pretty mind-blowing i mean i was like i was like when when we first even like getting like when i think we we took a ride didn't we and it was like not even like properly like racing the kanjo but it was like all right we're just gonna go on the kanjo and me and you were like holy fuck looking at each other like this is serious and it was nothing compared to what was about to happen but we were already like you know checking we're strapped in properly like raising your eyebrows like holy like what's going on and it felt felt like ridiculous like just off the bat oh ridiculous yeah like that first time when it was like oh okay we're just gonna go here and it's like oh we're on the loop now and then all of a sudden it's like a hundred miles an hour and that guy was like texting at the same time i was like oh we're gonna die like it was terrifying also like the exhausts like the sound that the cars make is just insane, isn't it?

It's just like, it just goes through you.

And I think even whatever speed you're at feels like twice as fast because you've just got this ridiculous rattle coming from the exhaust.

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do you know what though something really weird so like normally like say i'm about just at home in england or whatever and i hear someone tear down the road like that it like actually drives me mental like it pisses me off but but i don't know what it was like halfway through, I was like desperate to hear it again.

Like I wanted to feel it.

Like every trip we took, I was like, yeah, I loved it when the V-Tech kicked in.

Do you know what I mean?

Yeah, it is addictive, isn't it?

It's a weird, yeah.

Did you, did you feel that as well?

Almost like surprised I was that I'd ever think that.

Yeah, for sure.

And I think like

I both have sworn I would never get in one of those cars again and at the same time secretly would love the opportunity because it's just like,

I mean, it was, and it was a serious adrenaline rush.

Like it was everything about it.

And it hit all of your senses.

Like,

you know, you were overloading every sense that you have in your body.

It was just all like on overdrive.

And

it felt ridiculous.

And you got out of the car and like that adrenaline spike was like something else.

I mean,

not really comparable to anything else I've done.

It was really unique in that way.

No, same.

Like even like war or

it was a very specific adrenaline rush.

It was like, I don't know.

I think the like man man-in-machine in

vibe was just like, I don't know, something completely different.

It really made me feel like, I don't know, I don't want to say like I, I,

I understood it fully because I, I just, I couldn't, I would be so scared to drive like that myself all the time.

But very quickly, I saw the appeal of it.

Um,

did you?

Do you think, like, yeah, like I get why people would do that?

I'm not like a car nut in any way.

And it's the only time in my life I've been like, oh, I kind of get how your life could become that.

Yeah, like, if you were a a teenager, there you'd be like,

I think I want a civic now, and I think I want to do this because ultimately, like, it's like we were saying the whole time, like, like you made a good point at the start, like, Japanese culture, it really does not accept or favor outlaws or bandits in any way.

Do you know what I mean?

And you could really become a social prior as well.

Like, people could really ostracize you for that as well.

Hmm, yeah.

What was

the most challenging part for you, like trying to film

uh

the racing and everything easy question the the it was very difficult wasn't it i think you'll agree with this in the way that

um japanese people are quite guarded and shy i think when it comes to especially being on camera and especially when it's like a secretive world and i think we both had moments of trying our best to get them to engage past one-word answers and and that's just like I think that's just something that comes.

If we went back and we were the same people, I bet you it would be easier.

It's just maybe requires more time on the ground or whatever.

But they, it was quite tricky to get them to speak openly and

without embarrassment, I think, about what they were doing.

Yeah, that was a big part of it for me, is difficult because it's like you're going into this kind of

underworld, but actually, they're just mostly shy about it, which I didn't expect.

and that's different from a lot of the a lot of the other people that we go and film with right like a lot of the times these people have like a bit of an ego trip and it's like that you can't stop them like they just you can't stop them talking like about themselves or what they're doing and uh and and with uh with these guys it was the opposite but yeah i think apart from like i think it from a shooting perspective like it's quite a tricky story to cover in a few ways because one everything took place at night so just from like it's like straight away just from like an exposure point of view everything you're shooting is like you're you're struggling for light the whole time and number two like you're shooting in the back of like a stripped out car that's going ridiculously fast and swerving and like to get any kind of camera control requires hands of steel i mean it was like it was pretty hard from that point of view as well.

Yeah, I was trying to explain to a friend the other day about the rigs that we had in there.

Like you had like lorry straps, you had

the

tripod somehow in the back.

Can you maybe just go into a little bit of that?

Because I couldn't even really fully explain all those kind of technical things that you did to make it work.

I mean, I say technical.

It was like jerry-rigged, but it worked.

Yeah, shit rigs is what you call it.

Yeah, yeah.

It was like making the best of the situation.

So like we obviously put like GoPros on the on the side of the vehicle and within.

So we already had like a few angles covered, especially with the toge, which was more like set up.

We could rig a car way more than when we were doing the Kanjo.

But with the Toget, so we set up the GoPros, we had a few angles.

And then I was like, I would love to be able to get a shot from the interior looking forwards and rig a camera at

a certain viewpoint.

And in order to do that, I decided to strap the tripod down onto the cage of the car and secure it with these with these uh straps yeah that you could tighten right up

and it got really actually we managed to get it into a really good position didn't we and then just fix the camera onto the tripod and it created a fantastic like camera angle it was really cool it was like i think we had our widest lens on there it was like an 18 mil

and just locked off on that tripod and then just went through and it and because of the way that it was rigged it moved with the car so if the car went up a little bit the camera went up a little bit and that created a quite an unusual um

quite unusual footage didn't it felt felt very immersive and fast and i i think more so than the other like handheld stuff it was really cool actually no definitely i agree and i think like for anyone listening they'll see it uh on our youtube when that when the dot comes out but basically it was shooting out the the front but from the back right so it was like you can see my head you can see the driver's head but i think the shake is what actually made it work, if that makes sense.

For some reason, with filmmaking, it's kind of hard to show how fast something is actually going, right?

And like the shake kind of made it work.

Yeah.

And it's like the classic thing also, like, you know, slow motion, for example.

As soon as you're filming a car, slow motion is like the worst thing ever.

Just it doesn't, suddenly it just doesn't look.

It doesn't look great.

It just looks, just looks like very slow and boring.

You want to be able to have a little bit of shake, a little bit of speed.

You want to be able to communicate like that level of yeah just

pure speed and violence like going down the work road i mean literally the car is like going at a ridiculous speed down a mountain pass and like you don't want slow motion you don't want like really controlled footage you want something that's gonna

convey that you know yeah definitely um in terms of uh like the cars themselves like what did you make of that for me i just couldn't quite believe how much they'd taken it apart yeah it was quite crazy on the way to that togate like we were in different cars weren't we and i was like in with this other lad and he had it literally bare bones like bare bare bones like even the gear stick was like just like a straight metal pole there was nothing even on top it was like just bare and this

i mean it just felt unreal i was like surely you need more in this than like

basically a seat roll cage and gear stick and steering wheel like that was that was effectively it

even like the speedometer like didn't have like a plastic sheet it was just like open

the way that that's not gonna make any difference but that's crazy like just in case it's like a feather's weight fucking hell i um the guy i was with he didn't there was no panels on the door so the door handle was just like a wire like it was it was absolutely mental like all the back seats ripped out like everything um what was there anything that kind of like surprised you maybe you didn't expect from these people i think like often i think it's kind of kind kind of what we touched on but like it's kind of like when you go into these worlds often you get a certain type of person and i just felt like more so than ever with this story the the people engaging with with it were just so your standard joe kind of guy like just surprisingly so like they weren't in any way like

trying to be hard or like gangsters or anything.

They were just like ordinary guys, like a lot of them like video games and stuff.

And they were just doing these crazy races, but they weren't,

they didn't feel, like, they didn't fulfill the persona of like an outlaw as much as some of the other stories that we've done.

They just were ordinary guys.

And that was quite surprising, I thought, sometimes like super sweet, like nice guys.

Like, they weren't, there was no ego.

There was no like

trying to, trying to be a hard guy.

They were just, just loved racing these cars.

And yeah, that was quite surprising.

Yeah, that for me as well.

Like, even that, like, Yakuza guy we met was still nice.

You know, like, he was was a chill guy until he kind of, you know, vanished.

I was almost expecting some kind of like petrol head vibe like you maybe have in the UK, but literally, literally no one was like that.

Even Park, like, he was so sweet.

I feel like he really longed for the days of it.

You know what I mean?

Yeah, and you could tell that was a part of it, like the history to it was, everyone really respected that as well.

It was like, It was almost like this honor code of like respect towards the history of Kanjo and the people that had done it before them and stuff like and that was cool as well

what did you make of Japan it was your first time there right me as well yeah wicked so cool I mean it was like I you know a culture shock but in the best possible way it was like just brilliant it was like you were discovering something new on every street corner a different way of doing it whether it was like

you know typography colors like they just did everything different like i remember when we first got on the tube it was like the color system was just so crazily different to what we would expect in Europe.

And, you know, having like little cartoon caricatures like used in signage everywhere.

And like, it was just, yeah, it's just so different, isn't it?

Like, and that's fun to walk around and just, and just discover those things.

I feel like often when you travel a lot, that doesn't happen so much anymore.

I remember when I was younger and I went to India and I found that like a real culture shock as well.

And I think this is the only other time I've had that where it was like, oh, wow, like this really feels like I'm, like I'm traveling and I'm somewhere far, like, far from home.

That was cool.

Yeah, no, I agree.

I think with the way, like, everything is so globalized now, you can see the other side of the world in the click of a button.

It's almost like you've been somewhere before, even if you haven't.

But for me, even though I've been looking at Japanese culture and whatever, probably my whole life, like been fascinated from very young due to like manga and anime and all of that kind of cool stuff, it did feel like a completely new place to me.

And one thing that I just couldn't get my head around was

like we were in kind of like what was like would be considered like the hood but you know that really cheap little spot we had people were saying that's like a very uh relatively poor area for a soccer but it was absolutely lovely like no one had to chain their bike up everybody said hello there was no trash on the floor no nothing like that and the thing that got me was like everything worked i couldn't believe it and like we remember you like we got on that uh we got in the tube for the first time like literally it was it was just spotless.

Like, you could eat your dinner off it.

It was that clean.

And going, you know,

12 hours before, like,

getting off the London tube to go to Heathrow, and it's like, just feel that.

You sit down and a cloud of dust comes up.

And it's just such a difference, even on the micro as well as the macro.

Yeah, definitely.

I think as well, the

kind of...

culture of the bathhouses like we absolutely ended up loving that i think they called it the centaur right like the first i was like i don't want to go there it's kind of it seems a bit weird.

Mate, day one, loved it, absolutely in love with it.

The total difference of like bathhouse culture versus

like, you know, extreme speed street racing, it kind of said it all for me.

Yeah, yeah, yeah.

And they had that wild treatment in there where you got electrocuted.

Do you remember that?

That was.

Whoa, mate, I hated that.

I was terrified of that.

Yeah, yeah.

There was an old fella said, like, yeah, yeah, like, go in there.

It's relaxing or something.

And it turns out it was a fucking electrocution, man.

It was terrifying.

And he's laughing at me.

I was like, yeah, thanks, mate.

Fucking horrible.

What was the point of it?

I suppose I relaxed your muscles, but you just got your nerve and balls absolutely stocked up.

Yeah, absolutely, like zapped by lightning.

No, I hated that, mate.

It was horrible.

No, it's a very weird thing.

The strange bit for me, though, as well, when we went to like, was it Kyoto for the day?

And like, everyone, it was just American, like, IRL streamers.

It, yeah, it was just weird.

Very strange culture plus there, definitely.

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One thing I don't know if you felt this like but when I when I got home from like our trips absolutely buzzing mate the first time now this sounds like kind of corny but the first time I got in my car mate I I was like flying along the motorway back from the thing and I was like you know I don't have like a vrum vrom vam V tech in my car or anything like that but I was absolutely buzzing for about a week.

I don't know.

Did you feel anything like that?

Oh, I'll tell you what, actually, since we've come back from Japan, the number of speeding tickets I've got is actually

ridiculous.

I don't know if that's just a coincidence, but

maybe that's the lasting effect, the hang of them of Japan.

I'm just like thinking that I'm on the Kanja and all.

Yeah, mate, that says it all, man.

That says it all.

What a trip, though.

It was great.

It was just

a very unique trip and experience.

And I think like it's definitely stayed with me.

Like, maybe not racing a car, but like, just, I think about it a lot because it, and if people ask me like oh what's one trip that you you know you really enjoyed or was really cool for you that that one I definitely mention because it's like

it is it was sorry just

very

unique in the way that I experienced it like it definitely has stayed with me just lastly like what what did you feel when we went up that mountain pass and we're like halfway up there and they're like yeah we're gonna go now what what were you feeling when you were in the car oh man i think when you're a kid kid and you first like go on a roller coaster, like proper roller coaster, and you don't really know what to expect, but you're like, should I do it?

Shouldn't I do it?

And you end up like getting in the seat with your older brother or something.

And like the seatbelt straps in and you're like, do you know what?

Actually, I'm going to get off.

And it's like, no, mate, it's too late.

And what was hilarious, the funniest thing about it is like, we were like, both said to it, like, we were like, okay, we'll just do one.

We'll just do one.

And we raced down the mountain, didn't we?

And we came.

And then we like, they turned around at the bottom and they raced back up.

And we got back to that like car park.

And we were, I was like,

thank god that is over.

Like that was

and I was like looking at the driver's like oh like laughing like oh that was thanks man that was amazing I'm like trying to like just unstrap my belt thank you so much and he's like no idea what I'm saying just laughing and nodding and he's turning the car around I'm like oh thanks man like can't wait to get out of here thank god and he starts revving the engine and they all start lining up and I'm like no no no and then boom off again and it's like lap number two just not asked for but mate the exact same thing the same thing happened to me like we're going back up and like i think we did what like three or something like that and i went back up and uh i again i was like he's gonna stop like i'll just get out like like thank god i survived it i'm like literally praying in the car and he just he like i like looked at him and nodded and he nodded so i thought right he's got it straight down again like whoa

i was literally telling him like stop like i wanted to get out he was just nodding and laughing yeah yeah he's like yeah you like it i was like no no no like mate in the end I had to like really grab his shoulder, like, not forcefully, but and like get him to look at me.

And I was doing like the cut neck sign, like, I'm done.

I'm done.

Oh, man.

Absolutely terrifying, mate.

I'll tell you what as well.

I don't think I've ever felt g-force, if that makes sense.

Like, I feel like that's as close as it probably gets, you know, in terms of like being in the car.

Yeah, now you mentioned it.

Like, so I had all the cameras rigged up, but I also had a camera on my lap.

And I was in the car behind you, I think.

And my plan was to try and see if I could shoot some bits of your car through our window and literally like

before we even got to the first turn that was just evidently impossible because I like raised up the camera the g-force hit properly and it just like swung violently to the point where like I almost hit the driver and I was like nope not gonna try that again he like looked at me like I was absolutely crazy for trying so were you just shooting at the front window I was trying to yeah yeah yeah but it was very yeah I mean we're going so fast So I think a lot of the footage we will use is just from the GoPro angles, to be honest.

And the car and the one that was rigged, the camera in the back.

Yeah, I felt as well that the,

well,

you tell me, like, I, can you work out how that race worked?

Like, I don't know who was first, who was second.

Like, did you work it out?

No idea.

No, maybe time.

Yeah, I'm not sure.

It was just like he was, I think he was saying that when you when you get to the bottom, it's like you, whoever can quickly spin around and get the next spot but it like it didn't make any sense to me i don't know man it was absolutely crazy to me it was um quite an experience though and i'm glad we fucking lived through it how far do you reckon it was on the you know the other side of like that little fence like if you went off that it i mean you know i've been saying throughout this series it was certain death like it was right for sure for sure it was like yeah ravine like it was treed cliff like it was yeah you're not coming back if you went off that.

No,

definitely not.

All right, mate.

Thank you so much for coming along for that.

It was absolutely mental.

Yeah, no worries, man.

Until the next one.

Yes, mate.

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