{"id":55275,"date":"2025-02-16T10:33:36","date_gmt":"2025-02-15T21:33:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.musicofsound.co.nz\/blog\/?p=55275"},"modified":"2025-02-16T20:50:49","modified_gmt":"2025-02-16T07:50:49","slug":"sunday-movie-hairpin-circus-1972","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.musicofsound.co.nz\/blog\/sunday-movie-hairpin-circus-1972","title":{"rendered":"Sunday movie: Hairpin Circus 1972"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>someone on Twitter:<br \/>\nHave you ever wondered to yourself, \u201cis there a street racing film in the style of an early Michael Mann movie made in Japan?\u201d Well, look no further. Toho\u2019s Hairpin Circus (1972) features dizzying car chases, moody tension, and a killer Jazz score by Masaaki Kikuchi.<\/p>\n<p>Trailer:<br \/>\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Hairpin Circus (1972) Original Trailer [FHD]\" width=\"700\" height=\"394\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/a2topLtPLlY?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Full film:<br \/>\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"\u30d8\u30a2\u30d4\u30f3\u30fb\u30b5\u30fc\u30ab\u30b9 \uff0f Hairpin Circus (1972)\" width=\"700\" height=\"394\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/P0jJhwPjyok?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Being of this vintage means its shot on film too!<br \/>\nFun to see Japan in the 1970s&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Also worth thinking all of this film would have been recorded to analog tape.<br \/>\nSome of those race recordings sound so throaty &#038; powerful &#8211; beautiful analog distortion!!<\/p>\n<p>also available via <a href=\"https:\/\/archive.org\/details\/hairpin-circus-1972-1080p-blu-ray-remux-avc-dts-hd-ma-2.0-sr\">The Archive<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>someone on Twitter: Have you ever wondered to yourself, \u201cis there a street racing film in the style of an early Michael Mann movie made in Japan?\u201d Well, look no further. Toho\u2019s Hairpin Circus (1972) features dizzying car chases, moody&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"iawp_total_views":53,"footnotes":""},"categories":[198],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-55275","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-2c"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.musicofsound.co.nz\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55275","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.musicofsound.co.nz\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.musicofsound.co.nz\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.musicofsound.co.nz\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.musicofsound.co.nz\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=55275"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.musicofsound.co.nz\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55275\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":55282,"href":"https:\/\/www.musicofsound.co.nz\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55275\/revisions\/55282"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.musicofsound.co.nz\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=55275"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.musicofsound.co.nz\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=55275"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.musicofsound.co.nz\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=55275"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}