The Fast and the Furious: Tokyo Drift (2006) on Netflix
PG-1320061h 44mActionCrimeDrama
Sean Boswell, a repeat offender, is sent from Arizona to Tokyo to live with his father instead of jail. His new friend Twinkie brings him into the city's drift racing scene.
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- IMDb6.1/10338,783 votes
- Rotten Tomatoes37%
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Plot summary
Sean Boswell, a high school troublemaker in Oro Valley, Arizona, races a classmate named Clay and wrecks his car. Clay's family money keeps him out of trouble, while Sean, a repeat offender, is sent to Tokyo instead of jail and moves into his father's small apartment in a run-down neighborhood. He befriends Twinkie, a military brat who introduces him to drift racing. At an underground car meet, Sean quarrels with Takashi, the Drift King, about Takashi's girlfriend Neela, and then races him. Han Lue lends Sean a car for it, and Sean wrecks that one too. To repay the debt, Sean goes to work for Han, who starts teaching him how to drift.
Cast
- Damien Marzetteas High School Security Guard (as Damien Marzett)
- Brandon Brendelas Clay's Buddy #1
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- Ashika Gognaas Cheerleader #2
- Christian Salazaras Chubby Hispanic Kid
- Kevin Cairaas Auto Shop Bully #1
- Trey Sanfordas Auto Shop Bully #2 (as Julius Trey Sanford)
- Danny Ray McDonald IIas Auto Shop Bully #3
Did you know?!Facts and trivia about The Fast and the Furious: Tokyo Drift (2006)
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- Unable to get filming permits in Tokyo, Justin Lin's crew shot there anyway; when police came to arrest him, a fall guy hired by the studio claimed to be the director and spent the night in jail instead.
- Vin Diesel agreed to reprise Dominic Toretto for a brief cameo in Tokyo Drift in exchange for Universal giving him the rights to the Riddick character instead of a fee.
- With most of the franchise's main cast gone, Tokyo Drift was in danger of going straight to video, but Universal ultimately decided to release it in cinemas.
- None of Universal's own stunt drivers could drift, so the film hired real drifters including Keiichi Tsuchiya, Rhys Millen, Samuel Hübinette, Tanner Foust and Calvin Wan to perform the driving stunts.
- Writer Chris Morgan originally pitched a Tokyo story in which Dominic Toretto learns to drift and solves a murder, but Universal Pictures wanted a high-school-themed film instead.
- The missing fingers of one of Kamata's yakuza henchmen, a punishment the yakuza traditionally carries out, had to be added digitally to appease cultural concerns.
SPOILER
Han Lue's apparent death was later retconned: he was folded into Dominic Toretto's crew for three sequels set before Tokyo Drift, Furious 7 revealed Deckard Shaw drove the Mercedes that hit him, and fans campaigned for his return with #JusticeForHan.
