Sean Boswell 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, 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. 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, an explosive series of events is set into motion, climaxing with a high stakes face off. Also Known As: Fast and the Furious III Fast and the Furious: Tokyo Drift The Fast and the Furious 3 Production Status: Released Genres: Action/Adventure, Sequel and Sports Running Time: 1 hr. 38 min. Release Date: June 16th, 2006 (wide) MPAA Rating: PG-13 for reckless and illegal behavior involving teens, violence, language and sexual content. Distributors: Universal Pictures Distribution, United International Pictures Production Co.: Original Film Studios: Universal Pictures U.S. Box Office: $62,494,975 Filming Locations: Los Angeles, California, USA Tokyo, Japan Produced in: United States
The making of the Tokyo Drift Movie
Volkswagen donated 4 prototype R32's and 4 Touran minivans to fulfill its pledge with Universal to plug each other's products. As a result, R32's are in the movie.
Toyo donated 4000 tires for the movie. Roughly half were used. Volk Racing donated 170 wheels as well. 600 Asian extras were used during the LA filming days for the street scenes.
The Mitsubishi Lancer EVO IX, an AWD (all wheel drive) car, was converted to RWD in order to drift properly. Same thing was done with 2 of the VW R32's (which are also AWD).
The cut scenes in Tokyo Drift
Vin Diesel makes an uncredited appearance as Dominic Toretto (his character from the original Fast and the Furious film), claiming to be a friend of Han's.
Real life "Drift King" and drift pioneer Keiichi Tsuchiya also makes an appearance during the scenes where Lucas Black's character (Sean Boswell) is learning how to drift. He appears as an old fisherman who makes snide comments on Sean's lack of proper drift technique.
Rhys Millen, the primary stunt driver in the film, has a cameo appearance as one of the passengers in the airplane scene.
John Cho, the Korean American actor who appeared in Justin Lin's Better Luck Tomorrow also appears in the airplane scene.
The making of the Tokyo Drift Movie
Volkswagen donated 4 prototype R32's and 4 Touran minivans to fulfill its pledge with Universal to plug each other's products. As a result, R32's are in the movie.
Toyo donated 4000 tires for the movie. Roughly half were used. Volk Racing donated 170 wheels as well. 600 Asian extras were used during the LA filming days for the street scenes.
The Mitsubishi Lancer EVO IX, an AWD (all wheel drive) car, was converted to RWD in order to drift properly. Same thing was done with 2 of the VW R32's (which are also AWD).
The cut scenes in Tokyo Drift
Vin Diesel makes an uncredited appearance as Dominic Toretto (his character from the original Fast and the Furious film), claiming to be a friend of Han's.
Real life "Drift King" and drift pioneer Keiichi Tsuchiya also makes an appearance during the scenes where Lucas Black's character (Sean Boswell) is learning how to drift. He appears as an old fisherman who makes snide comments on Sean's lack of proper drift technique.
Rhys Millen, the primary stunt driver in the film, has a cameo appearance as one of the passengers in the airplane scene.
John Cho, the Korean American actor who appeared in Justin Lin's Better Luck Tomorrow also appears in the airplane scene.
