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Trailer Bulletin: Fast and the Furious: Tokyo Drift
by Scott Weinberg | March 20, 2006
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Click right here to get your first look at the trailer for Universal's "The Fast and the Furious: Tokyo Drift," a flick that might look a whole lot like a direct-to-video sequel, but will pull into theaters on June 16th (minus Paul Walker and/or Vin Diesel).

"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."

Directed by Justin Lin ("A Better Tomorrow") and starring Lucas Black, Bow Wow, and Sung Kang, "F & F: TD" looks to be one of this summer's true cinematic speed bumps.

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Koooomar writes:
on Mar 20 2006 09:43 AM

This movie actually looks worse then direct to video. It looks like it should have never been made. What the hell is going on with Justin lin? "Better luck Tomorrow" was a good movie and i was eagerly awaiting to see the next film he was going to do. I was shocked when I saw the trailer for "Annapolis" and was just hoping maybe he did that movie for the paycheck so he can go and finance more intelligent films. But then i see this and it has become abundently clear to me. He's sold out. Hopefully once this movie bombs just like Annapolis did, Studio's will stop trying to hire him and maybe he'll go back to the indy market and back to form in movies that he should be directing. But just because this movie has the title "the fast and the furious,"a ton of 13 year old boys and girls will flock to the cinemas, even though it seems like the only thing that this movie has in commen with the other two flicks is basically car racing.

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bigcfk writes:
on Mar 20 2006 05:31 PM

I cant wait.


This movie looks soo good...

...almost too good


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cowsfan writes:
on Mar 20 2006 07:06 PM

What exactly did they do different here? It looks like they took the same story, script and style of the first two and set it in Tokyo. Yawn. This should have been direct to video. I mean no stars.

Hey, I'll admit I enjoyed the first one but this is too much.


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getomans writes:
on Mar 20 2006 08:52 PM

It looks decent, it should be a new movie and not use the fast and the furious name to try to carry the movie(because possibly it can kill the franchise). The only recognizable people in the movie is Lucas Black(Friday Night Lights, Jarhead) and Bow Wow (Rapper, appeared in Like Mike and Roll Bounce and Johnsons Family Vacation). I might see it, it looks decent.

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Cindy_Lou_Who writes:
on Mar 21 2006 04:42 PM

Well, at least they're being honest and sticking to the Fast and Furious name. Hot cars, sexy dudes and an exotic city; who needs a story? This is 100% pure unadulterated eye candy and sometimes that's all we need for a Saturday night at the movies LOL!

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