The Fast and the Furious: Tokyo Drift
Also known as Fast and the Furious: Tokyo Drift, Fast and the Furious 3
2006 film directed by Justin Lin
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"The Fast and the Furious: Tokyo Drift" is a 2006 action film directed by Justin Lin that shifts the franchise's setting to Japan and focuses on street racing culture, particularly drifting. The film marked a new creative direction for the series under Lin's direction and introduced different characters and locations compared to the previous installments.
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6.5In order to avoid a jail sentence, Sean Boswell heads to Tokyo to live with his military father. In a low-rent section of the city, Sean gets caught up in the underground world of drift racing
Released: 2006-06-03104 minDir: Justin LinAction, Crime, Drama, ThrillerBudget: $85.0MBox office: $159MPart of: The Fast and the Furious Collection
Cast
- Lucas Black as Sean Boswell
- Nathalie Kelley as Neela
- Sung Kang as Han Lue
- Shad Moss as Twinkie
- Brian Tee as D.K.
- Leonardo Nam as Morimoto
Themes
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The Fast and the Furious: Tokyo Drift is a 2006 American action film directed by Justin Lin and written by Chris Morgan. It is a standalone sequel to The Fast and the Furious (2001) and 2 Fast 2 Furious (2003), and the third installment in the Fast & Furious franchise. Within the story's continuity, the film is set between Fast & Furious 6 (2013) and Furious 7 (2015). It stars Lucas Black and Bow Wow. In the film, car enthusiast Sean Boswell (Black) is sent to live in Tokyo with his estranged father and finds solace exploring the city's drifting community.
A third Fast & Furious film was confirmed in June 2005, when Lin was selected as director. Morgan was hired after an open call soon after, thus marking the first film in the franchise's longtime association with Lin, Morgan, actor Sung Kang, and composer Brian Tyler. Principal photography began in August 2005 and lasted until that November, with filming locations including Los Angeles and Tokyo, making Tokyo Drift the first film in the franchise to feature an international filming location.