Cast:
Lucas Black, Bow Wow, Brian Tee, Sung Kang, Jason Tobin, Nathalie Kelly
Directed by:
Justin Lin
Written by: Chris
Morgan, Kario Salem
Producer: Neal H.
Moritz
Executive Producer:
Clayton Townsend
From the producer of the
worldwide blockbuster hits The Fast and the Furious and its sequel, 2
Fast 2 Furious, comes the latest installment of the adrenaline-inducing
series built on speed—The Fast and the Furious: Tokyo Drift. Set
in the sexy and colorful underground world of Japanese drift racing, the
newest and fastest customized rides go head-to-head on some of the most
perilous courses in the world.
Sean Boswell (Black)
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 (Bow Wow),
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 (Kang). 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 (newcomer Kelley), an explosive series of events is
set into motion, climaxing with an ultimate high stakes face off.
The Fast and the
Furious 3: Tokyo Drift is directed by Justin Lin (Better Luck Tomorrow,
Annapolis
) and written by Chris Morgan (Cellular), Kario Salem (The Score) and
Alfredo Botello. The film is produced by Neal H. Moritz (xXx,
S.W.A.T.) and executive produced by Clayton Townsend (The Skeleton Key,
The 40 Year-Old Virgin).
Release
Date: 16 June 2006
