The Fast and the Furious: Tokyo Drift (2006)

The Fast and the Furious: Tokyo Drift has all the elements that spelled success for its predecessors: Speed, sex, and minimal dialogue. The plot doesn't need explication; it's a nonsensical series of confrontations and standoffs that serve to get us from one race to another. Tokyo Drift can most accurately be described as a visual poem about screeching tires, crunching fiberglass, and sleek female skin, set to a killer soundtrack of Japanese pop and hip-hop. The actors are only needed for tight close-ups of narrowed eyes or sweaty hands tightly gripping gearshifts, though Sung Kang, Better Luck Tomorrow, stands out as a vaguely philosophical hoodlum with deadpan charisma. The curved bodies of the cars and the luscious flesh of the women are both shot with a fetishistic hunger. The "drift" style of racing--in which the cars are allowed to slide in order to take sharp turns at high speeds--grabs your eyes; there's a strange, spectral beauty to rows of cars sliding sideways down a mountain road at night. Also starring Lucas Black (Friday Night Lights) as our wheel-happy hero; Bow Wow (Roll Bounce) as the scam-artist comic relief; and martial arts legend Sonny Chiba (Kill Bill) as a yakuza big shot. --Bret Fetzer Amazon.com

The Story Continues...

With as many turns as the original, Tokyo Drift continues the story seamlessly and delivers all the hot cars, and hot driving you expect from a Fast and Furious title. December 27, 2008

Reality Check

Please allow me to put in my two cents as an Army brat who went to school in Japan from nursery school all the way to grade 12. Not once did I wear a school uniform or have a Japanese-speaking instructor. Nor did we ever wear uwabaki, for that matter. Military dependents go to American school which look pretty much like stateside schools. Why would they ever put an American in a Japanese classroom when it would only create a distraction and slow things down? Movies rarely reflect reality. December 4, 2008

good fantasy race

Unless the movie show many strange behavior about the Japan culture, the director make a great rescue in the Fast & Furios sequel.
Great CGI and photo shoot work, make this work to enjoy a good action movie.

The bonus in the DVD, show a good work and have complete material to learn the tricks than they use to film the movie.

I'm particularly like, because is not the clasic mafia, war action movie. Is about the cars and the speed. Noting more. September 23, 2008

Meaningless and do more harm than good

I watched this DVD just because I have watched Initial D (the same car racing / drifting gerne) animation. I watched it just because I wanted to know how it could be shot with real people. To my disappointment, I found it was a very useless theme. There is no actual reason for this drifting/racing. I guess that is a teenage thing -- anger. I believe a lot of 1-star had been giving to this film and I am not going to eleborate any more.

I found it has a real bad influence to anyone who loves cars and those who always wanted to race. Even though the main character, Sean, never really injured in the movie, all his opponents died! Right, they all died. If anyone has a clear mind, Sean is just on the border and he could be the next one in line.

Last 2 words -- Drive Safely.
June 9, 2008

Better than I expected.

This movie was great. I watch many time, then I began to try drifting on my own car. It didn't work out so well and now I'm in a major law suit with the director and producer of this film. May 21, 2008

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