It’s not the opening to a TV show, but the opening to one of the films in the Torakku Yaro (a.k.a. “Truck Guy”) movie series from the late-1970s. This may just be one of the best opening sequences ever…
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TV In Japan (where I found this clip) notes:
This is a movie I feel I need to learn a lot more about.
It’s also the kind of thing that Quentin Tarantino probably has memorized.
I absolutely concur with that statement. A YouTube commenter notes that the opening song is by Ryuudou Uzaki and is titled “Ichibanboshi Blues.” Presumably there’s a helpful otaku out there who’s compiled all the music together.
I dug around on the net and turned up some info on what looks like the best film in the ten film series. In the fifth installment Sonny Chiba is the leader of the “Jaws Army Corps” truck gang. Sonny’s truck (a.k.a. Jaws I) is decorated as follows:
Yowza!