Despite (or maybe because of) all this, INITIAL D: DRIFT RACER turns out to be a very middling type of film, although it is a damn sight better than the most execrable the genre has to offer (SPEED RACER). And yet it's a Chinese film, in Cantonese language, with mainly Chinese actors playing the Japanese roles. It's based on a Japanese anime of the same name of the 1990s, and filmed in Japan with Japanese characters. There's a very odd background to this car racing movie, clearly aimed at the teenage crowd in Asia. Reviewed by Leofwine_draca 5 / 10 Middling road race antics from China Next time try not to squeeze so much crap in. Also I'd like to point out that not only is a 3 car race unfair, I've never seen a race with 3 cars in Initial D or any mountain race scene in any movie! The other team and even his abusive father who has his arms around two young girls start cheering. Overall I was bored, only paid attention during the races and got utterly perplexed by the ridiculous ending sequence where the people are celebrating. If you're a fan of the anime don't expect to hear your favorite eurobeat tracks or Move songs. The racing scenes have music that sounds like a background track for a rap battle without the rapping. Nothing in the movie was good except for Jay Chou's song. To freeze the scene even when it's a person's face talking. There are lots of scenes where they freeze the frame and you are left thinking "did something happen to my DVD player?" Nope. I find the camera work to be also crappy and low budget. Obviously, you can tell from what I'm writing here that the director probably never watched an episode of Initial D in his life. I don't know what they were thinking by making him an abusive drunkard since obviously from the original material he was never one. He beats his son and Jay Chou has scars on his back from all the beatings. Takumi's father is also a drunk and a bum. In the movie, this character talks about how he's a racing god and when he loses and wrecks he asks his poor father to buy him an even faster car (GTR) so that he can rematch and wreck that one too. In the anime, this character talks about trying to get better and having Takumi as his inspiration. His best friend Itsuki is more of a raving idiot than his anime counterpart would ever hope to be. I feel like he's always mumbling out his lines or is just wondering why he isn't doing the music video yet. Jay Chou does a pretty bad job as the protagonist. If you are a fan of the anime you will not find your beloved characters here. Unfortunately that's the only thing that is good about this movie. It's pretty fun to watch and you just have to wonder who the stunt men are or if they brought in Japanese drift legend, Tsuchiya on to the set for some of these shots. In many of the scenes they'll hug a turn on the inside and let the rear slide out and overtake the opponent. The car scenes are pretty fun to watch sometimes. That was the best part of the movie unfortunately. I had high hopes when watching the opening scene where Jay Chou's character is effortlessly gliding down the mountain pass in his Trueno. Of course I had to watch this movie since I was a big Initial D fan. Reviewed by Fumbled 3 / 10 Bad for Initial D fans! With Bunta's help, they repaired the AE86, this time with a true racing engine, and a three-way showdown between Takahashi, Fujiwara, and Sudou is on. However, Takahashi is there to lend a hand. Forcing the AE86 out with a busted engine. In another chance encounter, Sudou ran the AE86 and Takumi to the limit. And attract the wrath of Sudou, Team Emperor's leader. In a mountain road encounter, they ran into Team Emperor's Mitsubishi Evo, and normally the old junker don't stand a chance, but when controlled by Takumi they were able to defeat the Evo. His girlfriend Natsuki Mogi wants his attention even though she's got a dark and shameful secret, and his best friend Itsuki (who has no talent in driving) wants Takumi to teach him road racing. However, winning hasn't helped him home life, as his father, Bunta Fujiwara, was a drunkard (and a racing genius). Takumi was able to defeat Nakazato again, showing that he is no fluke. But the car who beat him was actually driven by a local Tofu shop owner's son, Takumi Fujiwara, who had unknowingly perfected the art of mountain racing through daily deliveries of tofu. Nakazato was surprisingly defeated by an old Toyota Trueno AE86 (Corolla in the US) one night, and he searched for the person who defeated him, which lead him to the Speedstars, a local team. Two mountain road racers, Nakazato and Takahashi, challenged each other to find the best racers, and defeat them in "battles".
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