Initial D

Director; Wai-keung Lau
Starring; Jay Chou, Edison Chen, Anthony Wong
Genre; Action, Car
Year; 2005
Release; UK Contender

Live action version of a popular Manga and Anime series. Centred in the world of street racing, more specifically, the drifting style. Comparisons wih F&F3; Tokyo Drift are inevitable, so here goes. Tokyo drift is an overplayed, overhyped, nonsensical pile of shit. Initial D is somewhat better than that. Ok, the story is rather cheesey, but so is most Manga (unless it's utterly incomprehensible). It's the action, and the style, that this stuff is about, and here it scores quite well. The drifting scenes are unfaked, they really are hanging the back out on mountain roads, this gives the driving scenes a certain edge.
Although this is filmed in Japan (the birthplace of drifting as a competetive race style, and the story setting), it was made by Chinese, and the cast is chinese too. It's a decent enough film, for a bit of fun.