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The Fast and the Furious: Tokyo Drift

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The Fast and the Furious: Tokyo Drift (2006)

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Reviews Counted:104

Fresh:35

Rotten:69

Average Rating:4.6/10

Consensus: Eye-popping driving sequences coupled with a limp story and flat performances make this Drift an adequate follow-up to the previous Fast and Furious installments. Strictly for the racing crowd and fans of the first two films.

Rated: PG-13 [See Full Rating] for reckless and illegal behavior involving teens, violence, language and sexual content

Runtime: 1 hr 46 mins

Genre: Action/Adventure

Theatrical Release:Jun 16, 2006 Wide

Box Office: $62,494,975

Synopsis: From the producer of the worldwide blockbuster hits The Fast and the Furious and its sequel, 2 Fast 2 Furious, comes the latest installment of the adrenaline-inducing series built on speed—The Fast... From the producer of the worldwide blockbuster hits The Fast and the Furious and its sequel, 2 Fast 2 Furious, comes the latest installment of the adrenaline-inducing series built on speed—The Fast and the Furious: Tokyo Drift. Set in the sexy and colorful underground world of Japanese drift racing, the newest and fastest customized rides go head-to-head on some of the most perilous courses in the world. Sean Boswell (Black) is an outsider who attempts to define himself as a hot-headed, underdog street racer. Although racing provides a temporary escape from an unhappy home and the superficial world around him, it has also made Sean unpopular with the local authorities. To avoid jail time, Sean is sent to live with his gruff, estranged father, a career military-man stationed in Tokyo. Now officially a gaijin (outsider), Sean feels even more shut out in a land of foreign customs and codes of honor. But it doesn't take long for him to find some action when a fellow American buddy, Twinkie (Bow Wow), introduces him to the underground world of drift racing. Sean's simple drag racing gets replaced by a rubber-burning, automotive art form—with an exhilarating balance of speeding and gliding through a heart-stopping course of hairpin turns and switchbacks. On his first time out drifting, Sean unknowingly takes on D.K., the "Drift King," a local champ with ties to the Japanese crime machine Yakuza. Sean's loss comes at a high price tag when he's forced to work off the debt under the thumb of ex-pat, Han (Kang). Han soon welcomes Sean into this family of misfits and introduces him to the real principles of drifting. But when Sean falls for D.K.'s girlfriend, Neela (newcomer Kelley), an explosive series of events is set into motion, climaxing with an ultimate high stakes face off. The Fast and the Furious: Tokyo Drift is directed by Justin Lin (Better Luck Tomorrow, Annapolis) and written by Chris Morgan (Cellular). The film is produced by Neal H. Moritz (xXx, S.W.A.T.) and executive produced by Clayton Townsend (The Skeleton Key, The 40 Year-Old Virgin). -- © Universal Pictures [More]

Starring: Bow Wow, Lucas Black, Sung Kang, Zachery Ty Bryan

Starring: Bow Wow, Lucas Black, Sung Kang, Zachery Ty Bryan, Brian Goodman, Brian Tee, Nathalie Kelley, Kario Salem

Director: Justin Lin

Director: Justin Lin
Producer: Neal H. Moritz
Composer: Brian Tyler
Studio: Universal Pictures

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Blu-ray Disc Features:

  • 2-Disc Set
  • Region [unknown]

Audio:

  • DTS 5.1 Surround - English, Spanish
  • DTS-HD Master Audio 5.1 - English
  • Subtitles - English, SDH, French, Spanish

Additional Release Material:

  • Deleted Scenes
  • Audio Commentary: Director Justin Lin

Music Video:

  • 1. Don Omar "Conteo" Music Video
  • 2. Far East Movement "Round Round" Music Video
  • 3. Fast 3 Soundtrack Spot

Featurette:

  • 1. Making of the Fast Franchise
  • 2. Drift: A Sideway Craze
  • 3. Custom Made Drifter
  • 4. Drifting School
  • 5. Cast Cam
  • 6. The Big Breakdown: Han's Last Ride
  • 7. Tricked Out to Drift
  • 8. Welcome to Drifting
  • 9. The Real Drift King
  • 10. The Japanese Way

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Full Review Source: Boston Phoenix | comment Comment
04/23/09
Tom Meek
Tom Meek
Boston Phoenix

The cars are the real stars of the movie. They are jazzy and fast and have more personality than most of the actors.

Full Review Source: Journal and Courier (Lafayette, IN) | comment Comment
06/17/06
Bob Bloom
Bob Bloom
Journal and Courier (Lafayette, IN)

The adrenaline-charged racing sequences have a kind of brutally modern elegance. But when their fingers slip from the nitro fuel-injection buttons and the teens are forced to say a few syllables, big chunks of the movie come to a tire-screeching halt.

Full Review Source: Atlanta Journal-Constitution | comment Comment
06/15/06
Bob Townsend
Bob Townsend
Atlanta Journal-Constitution
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Well made technically, but, still, just more of the same.

Full Review Source: Denton Record Chronicle (TX) | comment Comment
06/17/06
Boo Allen
Boo Allen
Denton Record Chronicle (TX)

Each film throws two or three okay action scenes into an otherwise wobbly blend of macho posturing, philosophically windy chitchat and moldy archetypes.

Full Review Source: FilmStew.com | comment Comment
06/15/06
Brett Buckalew
Brett Buckalew
FilmStew.com

Racing junkies would be better off browsing the myriad online drifting videos where the camera doesn’t cut and the people don’t speak. Film buffs would be better off watching Two-Lane Blacktop, but they probably already knew that.

Full Review Source: Austin Chronicle | comment Comment
06/15/06
Brian Clark
Brian Clark
Austin Chronicle

Having lived through many a Minnesota winter, call me unimpressed to see a bunch of toy cars swerving wildly around city streets.

Full Review Source: FilmJerk.com | comment Comment
06/15/06
Brian Orndorf
Brian Orndorf
FilmJerk.com

The movie lurches, wheezes and misfires throughout, with a clunky pace more suited to those who live life one Quarter Pounder at a time.

Full Review Source: South Florida Sun-Sentinel | comment Comment
06/15/06
Charlie Flowers
Charlie Flowers
South Florida Sun-Sentinel

It's a modern day Romeo and Juliet with a whole lot o 'Pimp my Ride' thrown in.

Full Review Source: TheMovieChicks.com | comment Comment
06/16/06
Cherryl Dawson and Leigh Ann Palone
Cherryl Dawson and Leigh Ann Palone
TheMovieChicks.com

Padded with relatively unknown actors, "Tokyo Drift" is more of an actors' showcase than fully fleshed-out movie.

Full Review Source: ColeSmithey.com | comment Comment
06/16/06
Cole Smithey
Cole Smithey
ColeSmithey.com

A couple bravura set pieces and a surprise cameo may make fans forget that for much of the time, this "Fast and the Furious" is closer to "Sluggish and the Dispassionate."

Full Review Source: Zap2it.com | comment Comment
06/16/06
Dan Fienberg
Dan Fienberg
Zap2it.com

Perhaps the most glaring drawback to Tokyo Drift is the filmmakers' cynical belief that their audiences don't deserve any better.

Full Review Source: Film Journal International | comment Comment
06/19/06
Daniel Eagan
Daniel Eagan
Film Journal International

I don't know about you, but I stopped playing with my cars when I was 10 and you never escape the feeling that the characters in this knackered Nissan of a film have never grown out of messing around with their brrm-brrms.

Full Review Source: Daily Mirror [UK] | comment Comment
06/24/06
David Edwards
David Edwards
Daily Mirror [UK]

This greased popcorn box uses women as hood ornaments.

Full Review Source: San Diego Union-Tribune | comment Comment
06/16/06
David Elliott
David Elliott
San Diego Union-Tribune

The thin story and thinner characters are just setups for the race sequences, which are punctuated by lavish parties where lithe women seem to outnumber the guys by a 5-to-1 ratio.

Full Review Source: Associated Press | comment Comment
06/15/06
David Germain
David Germain
Associated Press
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OK, they squeezed one more lap out of this franchise. It's been a fun ride, but it's time to shut things down. If you get my drift.

Full Review Source: Philadelphia Inquirer | comment Comment
06/16/06
David Hiltbrand
David Hiltbrand
Philadelphia Inquirer
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