The Fast and the Furious: Tokyo Drift

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The Fast and the Furious: Tokyo Drift

PG-13

Released Jun 16, 2006

1h 44m

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Mystery & Thriller

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Sean Boswell (Lucas Black) always feels like an outsider, but he defines himself through his victories as a street racer. His hobby makes him unpopular with the authorities, so he goes to live with his father in Japan. Once there and even more alienated, he learns about an exciting, but dangerous, new style of the sport. The stakes are high when Sean takes on the local champion and falls for the man's girlfriend.

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Critics Consensus

Eye-popping driving sequences coupled with a limp story and flat performances make this Drift a disappointing follow-up to previous Fast and Furious installments.

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Anthony Quinn

Independent (UK)

This third outing made me almost nostalgic for the original movie starring Vin Diesel and Paul Walker. Almost.

Mar 31, 2019

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Tim Robey

Daily Telegraph (UK)

Whizzily underwhelming...

Mar 31, 2019

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James Christopher

The Times (UK)

The Fast and Furious: Tokyo Drift is another dismal chapter in a franchise that started promisingly enough with Rob Cohen's rebel-with-too-much-horse-power-but-lots-of-chicks.

Mar 29, 2019

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Brian Eggert

Deep Focus Review

Racing scenes, the only reason people endure this franchise’s bad scripts and worse acting, are filmed unintelligibly fast and enhanced by generic computer effects.

Rated: 0.5/4

Sep 4, 2023

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Mike Massie

Gone With The Twins

Fully embracing car culture, yet without the over-the-top slang abused in the previous picture, this third chapter wisely dispenses with the undercover cop missions.

Rated: 4/10

Aug 9, 2023

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Brett Doze

InSession Film

This entry lacks due to Sean being the least interesting character in the film, but it also finds success by featuring some of the very best racing scenes of the entire franchise.

May 2, 2023

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Tanner P

Everybody acts like fast and furious movies are about the story but doms story isn’t that great and has completely lost all credibility the franchise has gone away from racing cars and toward saving the world. but for some reason the one that isn’t fully connected to dom is the worst? but thats wrong it has its own unique style and great story and overall the best ff movie this is the only ff movie i will rewatch Tokyo drift is a thousand times better then any of the new ff movies

Rated 5 out of 5 stars

10/04/25

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Romas M

Greetings from Lithuania. "The Fast and the Furious: Tokyo Drift" (2006) is a must see F&F film for fans of the franchise. Filled with good performances from all of the cast that were and still are mostly unknowns, good story and solid storytelling, this chapter truly delivers. Being a first directing effort in the series by Justin Lin - "Tokyo Drift" captured what I personally have truly wanted from this series at that point - an involving story, fast cars, different approach to races, interesting characters. I truly believe that "Tokyo Drift" is the second best chapter in the franchise after superior "Fast Five". It delivers on every aspect. I saw it more times than any of the film in this series just because this movie is first off all about something more then just fast cars - it has a true and real plot, with main character I did care. Sure, it is simple as it goes but the underdog stories are something i really dig. Overall, "Tokyo Drift" is truly a simple yet great entertainment all around for me personally. It has everything that one can expect from the series without space travel - a really involving story first.

Rated 4.5 out of 5 stars

09/29/25

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Abraham L

One of the best movies of the franchise. Great story besides the racing. Pretty awesome

Rated 5 out of 5 stars

09/16/25

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Ed R

Not the best movie of the franchise but ties together the complete story.

Rated 3 out of 5 stars

09/02/25

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Omid S.

This is probably the worst fast and furious movie. Every other one I believe is four or five stars.

Rated 2 out of 5 stars

08/20/25

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Joseph M

It definitely has the best esthetic of all the movies in the franchise, but is dragged down by a dumb plot and even dumber protagonist.

Rated 2.5 out of 5 stars

08/18/25

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The Fast and the Furious: Tokyo Drift: Official Clip - Racing Through Tokyo

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The Fast and the Furious: Tokyo Drift: Official Clip - The Race Begins

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The Fast and the Furious: Tokyo Drift: Official Clip - Building the Car

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The Fast and the Furious: Tokyo Drift: Official Clip - The Mountain Race

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The Fast and the Furious: Tokyo Drift: Official Clip - Pre-race Tussle

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The Fast and the Furious: Tokyo Drift: Official Clip - Sean Beats D.K.

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The Fast and the Furious: Tokyo Drift: Official Clip - Out of the Garage

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The Fast and the Furious: Tokyo Drift: Official Clip - Morimoto Bites the Dust

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The Fast and the Furious: Tokyo Drift: Official Clip - Drifting with Neela

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The Fast and the Furious: Tokyo Drift: Official Clip - Collecting From Paw

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Synopsis

Sean Boswell (Lucas Black) always feels like an outsider, but he defines himself through his victories as a street racer. His hobby makes him unpopular with the authorities, so he goes to live with his father in Japan. Once there and even more alienated, he learns about an exciting, but dangerous, new style of the sport. The stakes are high when Sean takes on the local champion and falls for the man's girlfriend.

Director: Justin Lin
Producer: Neal H. Moritz
Screenwriter: Alfredo Botello, Chris Morgan, Kario Salem
Distributor: Universal Pictures
Production Co: Original Film, Universal Pictures
Rating: PG-13 (Language|Involving Teens|Reckless and Illegal Behavior|Sexual Content|Violence)
Genre: Action, Mystery & Thriller
Original Language: English
Release Date (Theaters): Jun 16, 2006, Wide
Release Date (Streaming): Jul 22, 2015
Box Office (Gross USA): $62.5M
Runtime: 1h 44m
Sound Mix: Dolby SRD, DTS, SDDS
Aspect Ratio: Scope (2.35:1)

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