Still, Tokyo Drift is significant for two reasons. But all the same, Tokyo Drift ‘s driving scenes are a bit repetitive – once you’ve seen one car glide at a 45-degree angle round a bend, you’ve seen them all. Tokyo Drift has lots of the staples from previous Fast films: the fancy cars, women in tight shorts blithely used as set dressing, and knowingly camp dramatics. The move is intended to straighten Sean out, but he just ends up drifting cars (that is, driving them sideways really fast) and getting in trouble with the Yakuza. After an illegal race goes awry (in what is arguably the best action scene in the film), Sean’s sent off to stay with his US Air Force father, stationed in Tokyo. Tokyo Drift stars Lucas Black, whose daredevil car enthusiast Sean is purportedly 17 but looks about as teenaged as Channing Tatum in 21 Jump Street.
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He didn’t stick around for the 2003 sequel, 2 Fast 2 Furious, but co-star Paul Walker was only too happy to reprise his role as the cheerfully reckless petrol head cop, Brian O’Conner.īy the time the next film – The Fast And The Furious: Tokyo Drift – rolled out in 2004, though, the series seemed to be running on empty: the original cast had almost all bailed, and a tacked on cameo from Diesel was as far as the connective tissue to the earlier films went (well, sort of – more on franchise connections later). It arrived just in time to catch the peak of a craze for modified Japanese cars, and helped turn Vin Diesel into a star. Yet this likeably dunder-headed movie, directed by Rob Cohen, was a sleeper hit. Its plot was blatantly swiped from Kathryn Bigelow’s thriller, Point Break. Its title, The Fast And The Furious, was purchased from filmmaker Roger Corman its illegal Street racing premise was based on a magazine article. When it began, unfeasibly far back at the turn of the millennium, it was more a Frankenstein’s monster than a hit factory in the making. The Fast & Furious franchise wasn’t always the multi-billion dollar box office juggernaut it is today. Why doesn’t Tokyo Drift quite fit the timeline of the other Fast & Furious films, and what was done to try and slot it in? Ryan Lambie discovers the answer is rather audacious…
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