Let’s go back to 2006…or are we in 2014? The gaijin Max Roberts and Logan Moore are joined by Yakuza member Michael Ruiz to examine how small stakes feel in a post-Fast & Furious 6 world. Has the Tokyo crew drifted into our hearts or are they better off forgotten?

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The Fast and the Furious: Tokyo Drift

• Release Date - June 16, 2006
• Director - Justin Lin
• Producers - Neal H. Moritz
• Writer - Chris Morgan
• Actors - Lucas Black, Bow Wow, Sung Kang, Nathalie Kelley, and Brian Tee
• Composer - Brian Tyler
• Stunt Coordinators - Terry Leonard
• Budget / Profit - $85 million / $159 million

Rotten Tomatoes - 38% critic and 69% viewers

Links

• The Fast and the Furious: Tokyo Drift Wikipedia
• The Fast and the Furious: Tokyo Drift Trailer
• Max's Tokyo Drift Realization
• Need for Speed games
• Tokyo Drift Avoiding Direct-to-DVD
• Vin Diesel's Trade for Riddick
• Soundtrack
  • Music
  • Spotify
  • YouTube
• The Fast and the Furious: Tokyo Drift Cars

• This episode was originally recorded on September 9, 2022.

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