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The Fast and the Furious: Tokyo Drift (2006)
Directed by Justin Lin
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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 2 times)
| Date Viewed | Device | Format | Source | Rating |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 07/13/2024 | Home Theater | 4K Blu-ray | Owned | 7 stars |
| 03/23/2008 | TV | DVD | Owned | 7 stars |
| (Average) 7 stars |
Viewing Notes
Birthday movie night: favorite franchise film (the franchise being The Fast and The Furious, which I love).
Kinda had to do this one after screening F&F 1 last year for my bday and doing 2F2F this year. It’s an interesting entry bc it sheds the “crime / heist / uncover” elements for a fish out of water / stranger in a strange land premise. ofc it bumps up to the crime elements w/the silly yakuza stuff but it’s really the American in Japan falling for a girl and getting mixed up with the wrong people. Then there’s the daddy issue stuff. Really odd entry in the franchise that I still like a lot bc it introduces fan favorite Han and it’s Justin Lin’s debut into the franchise.
4K UHD looks pretty good and sounds good, too. Love seeing the exaggerated Tokyo and Japanese culture in this. It’s too bad they didn’t just get a Japanese girl for the love interest but I get it. They needed it to be “Japan” but not too much Japan for western audiences.
Always love seeing Keiko Kitagawa still fresh off her turn as Sailor Mars in the live action Sailor Moon series, before she blew up as a cover girl model and a more famous actress.
We definitely should do the short film and F&F 4 sometime then ofc the action masterpiece Fast Five.
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