Redline (2009 film)

Redline ? , stylized as REDLINE is a 2009 science fiction auto racing anime film produced by Madhouse and released in Japan on October 9, 2010. The directorial debut feature of Takeshi Koike, it features the voices of Takuya Kimura, Y Aoi and Tadanobu Asano, and an original story by Katsuhito Ishii, who also cowrites and sound directs. The film is set in the distant future, where a man known as JP takes on great risks for the chance of winning the titular underground race.

In the future, on the planet Dorothy, a world dominated by canine humanoids, ducks asshairstyle wearing Sweet JP races in the planets Yellowline car race, a final elimination race despite two interplanetary wars to the most popular race in the galaxy, the Redline. The crowd is watching the race on an outdoor giant monitor screen in the desert town of the Water Stop. His mechanic, Joshua Frisbee Flathead, is watching the televised race with a mafia boss. The gambling boss is concerned that JP might attempt to win the fixed race but Frisbee reassures him that JP needs bail bond funds from the payoff. JP attempts to win anyway while Frisbee resorts to using a remote detonator transmitter hidden in the palm of his hand which the mob boss doesnt notice, causing JPs TransAM20000 to explode and making the Crab Sonoshee Sea hovercraft piloted by female racer Sonoshee Cherry Boy Hunter McLaren the winner.While recuperating from the explosion in a planet Dorothy hospital Frisbee tells JP hes off the hook with his bondsman. JP initially turns down the money but a crowd of reporters storms the hospital room where JP learns that he has been voted by popular demand for the Redline following the dropout of two qualifiers due to the revelation of the races location being Roboworld, a planet dominated by purist, militant zealot cyborgs whose President has threatened on interstellar television to hang all involved with the Redline mothership if it appears out of hyperspace over their planet with the races hundreds of television satellites, exposing their secretive weapons buildup against treaty. ........

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