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The Fast and the Furious: Tokyo Drift (2006)

Directed by Justin Lin

Action | Sports

Most recently watched by sensoria, sleestakk, VicnaLobster, CaptainBigTime, themarc, schofizzy, Javitron, Angjonesy, noahphex, lolareels

Overview

In order to avoid a jail sentence, Sean Boswell heads to Tokyo to live with his military father. In a low-rent section of the city, Shaun gets caught up in the underground world of drift racing

Rated PG-13 | Length 104 minutes

Actors

Lucas Black | Nathalie Kelley | Sung Kang | Shad Moss | Brian Tee | Leonardo Nam | Brian Goodman | Zachery Ty Bryan | Nikki Griffin | Jason Tobin | Keiko Kitagawa | Lynda Boyd | Sonny Chiba | Damien Marzett | Trula M. Marcus | Brandon Brendel | Daniel Booko | David V. Thomas | Amber Stevens | Ashika Gogna | Vincent Laresca | Yoko Maki | Toshi Hayama | Atley Siauw | Kaila Yu | Aiko Tanaka | Satoshi Tsumabuki | Alden Ray | Konishiki | Caroline de Souza Correa | Silvia Šuvadová | Jimmy Lin | Shoko Nakagawa | Koji Kataoka | Trey Sanford | Christian Salazar | Danny Ray McDonald II | Joey Crumpton | Rie Shibata | Hiroshi Hatayama | Keiichi Tsuchiya | Verena Mei | Mari Jaramillo | Mikiko Yano | Wendy Watanabe | Tina Tsunoda | Tak Kubota | Hidesuke Motoki | Toshio Ariki | Mitsuru Ôno | Kazutoshi Wadakura | Mitsuki Koga | Vin Diesel | Britten Kelley | Kevin Ryan | Kazuki Namioka | Chris Astoyan | Tessa Bartholomew | April Betts | Ai Cherie | Willis Chung | Stacy Ross | Victoria Gracie | Jade Gzi | Elizabeth Hara | Bud Joseph Hebert | Alexis Hernandez | Jimmy Hsu | Harley Jay | Eunice Kiss | Tara Kredel | Sandra McCurdy | Chaoxiang Ming | Emmi Nakagawa | Tyler Nelson | Masami Okada | Sandy Velasco | Minn Vo | Stuart Yee | Joshua Collins

Viewing History (seen 1 time)

Viewing Notes

Justin Lin took an okay property and ran with it in TOKYO DRIFT. The only film of the series to actually focus on racing, it plays out kind of like ROCKY 3 only with high performance street racing in place of boxing (and it’s no where as near a good of a film as any of the ROCKY films…well, maybe better than 5).

I thought this flick was better than it should have been. The lead actor was a bit of a doofus, but at least we’re introduced to Sung Kang as Han (who appears in the newer FAST & FURIOUS movies). I think Sung Kang steals the show and wish they eliminated the idiotic southern kid altogether.

TOKYO DRIFT revitalized this series and it’s a guilty pleasure worth revisiting.

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