Banzai Runner

Where Speed Is The Only Thing That Counts

APPROPIATE

1987 / 88min.

Rating4.7

Genres

Action

Synopsis

A highway patrolman goes after a ring of hit-and-run drivers known as "Banzai runners," who have fast, expensive cars and stage illegal, dangerous high-speed races on the freeways at night.

Directors

Actors

Dean Stockwell

Billy Drago

Charles Dierkop

Rick Fitts

Barry Sattels

John Shepherd

Biff Yeager

Ron Sloan

Ann Cooper

Steve Jamieson

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