Wangan Midnight The Movie ~Special Driving Style~ is the soundtrack album for the 2009 film Wangan Midnight The Movie, which was released on September 2, 2009, by Avex Trax. The film being based on the manga and anime of the same name. Comprising Rock, Eurobeat, and Pop songs, it consists of nineteen tracks, with tracks 1 and 18 serving as intros and outros, and track 19 being the theme song of the film, "Perfect Girls" by the Japanese girl group Dream. Five of the songs featured on the album are Eurobeat songs from the labels A-Beat-C and Time Records.
Track Listing[]
Eurobeat songs are listed in bold.
| # | Title | Artist | Length |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Intro ~ Sound Files of Devil's Z | DJ Gun & KT | 1:01 |
| 2 | I Melt With You | Sugarcult | 3:49 |
| 3 | Your Love Sends Me (Giant Swing Extended Mix) | Elisha La'Verne | 5:20 |
| 4 | Riot | Sugarcult | 3:29 |
| 5 | Going Through The Motions | McFly | 3:23 |
| 6 | Come Back | Go Go Girls | 6:04 |
| 7 | Everlasting Love | GTS ft. mink | 5:41 |
| 8 | Heart Breaker | Mike Hammer | 5:11 |
| 9 | Transmission | Mega NRG Man | 5:58 |
| 10 | Give Me Something Real | PARRADISE | 3:59 |
| 11 | Flowers You Bring | Jaki Graham | 5:22 |
| 12 | Wait For You | Elliot Yamin | 4:23 |
| 13 | Wheels Of Fire | Dave Rodgers | 4:59 |
| 14 | What Is Real | Mike Freeman | 5:14 |
| 15 | I'm Gonna Get You Baby | PARRADISE | 3:53 |
| 16 | Corrupted | McFly | 3:42 |
| 17 | The End | 3:43 | |
| 18 | Outro ~ Sound Files of Devil's Z | DJ Gun & KT | 0:21 |
| Theme Song | |||
| 19 | Perfect Girls (Special Driving Edit) | Dream | 2:35 |
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Trivia[]
- This is one of the few media in the Wangan Midnight franchise to feature some Eurobeat songs, as they are more well-known in Initial D since they are both street racing manga and anime franchises. However, the Eurobeat in the film is only played in a few scenes, as it features an original score that plays during race and action scenes. The Wangan Midnight anime never even had Eurobeat and just had original background music play during races scenes, whereas the Wangan Midnight Maximum Tune arcade games by Namco featured a trance soundtrack composed by Yuzo Koshiro in a similar way to how Initial D has Eurobeat.
- Out of all the Eurobeat songs that played in the film, "Heartbreaker" was the only song that played during a race sequence, which was the first race between the Devil Z and Blackbird. "Come Back" was heard briefly at a car meet that Akio Asakura goes to after restoring the Devil Z. "Transmission" was heard during the scene where Reina Akikawa gets her pictures taken by Yoshiaki Ishida, interpolating with scenes of his yellow Ferrari F355. "Wheels Of Fire" and "What Is Real" are heard in two scenes at a nightclub that Akio Asakura temporarily works at.