Ayako Kawasumi, Mitsuo Iwata, Ryôka Yuzuki

Takumi "Tak" Fujiwara was pretty unassuming -- until a yellow RX-7 refused to let him pass on one of his tofu delivery runs in Mount Akina. Little did Tak know that the driver was one of the hottest s...( read more  read more... )treet racers around, and when Tak outmaneuvered the RX-7 in his old '86 Toyota, he set himself up as the new driver to beat.

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Directed by: Masami Hata, Noboru Mitsusawa

Release Date: December 31, 1999

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DVD Release Date: October 14, 2003

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  • November 1, 2009
    drift....drift...and drift...u know what i mean
  • September 25, 2009
    played the game & seen this, when i watch it i think to myself "wow, they have nice scenes &cars in that movie"
  • September 17, 2009
    The best car related movie I've seen.
  • July 6, 2009
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  • May 16, 2009
    MY 1ST MOVIE...I LUV IT
  • March 2, 2009
    This film is an odd one, it combines the intensity of 'Fast and the Furious', the manga storyline, the videogame camera angle and the beauty of landscape. Takumi, the lead character is handled quite well, the resting elbow position, the calm manner and pretty much anti-social beh...( read more)aviour is there. The car is portrayed brilliantly but the only thing missing was the tikking sound when the car's pushed to its limits as it drifts around the corner.

    Some of the other characters are a bit annoying with bizarre outfits and plain acting but in terms of a film representation there is actually a start, middle, climax and an ending. Less can be said about other manga/anime transfers.

    Whilst being predictable at times it's an overall smooth ride
  • February 23, 2009
    takumi is cute.. i fisrt seen this on the anime version.. i really like how they explaine how it happens.. i mean racing terms.. heheh i love to watch movies about racing..
  • February 17, 2009
    Haha, Jay Chow is so funny! Interesting movie, felt too short/storyline not developed well. But now I want to watch all the anime! :p
  • January 22, 2009
    Initial D which first aired in Japan in 1998, is a consistently exciting and compelling anime series based on Shuichi Shigeno's popular manga about downhill mountain road racing in Japan's Gunma Prefecture. The look of the series draws closely on that of the manga w...( read more)ith somewhat simple, almost cartoonish (but surprisingly effective) design for the characters, created in 2-D animation, contrasting noticeably with the technically detailed look of the cars and races, which are recreated with 3-D CGI for the anime. While the integration of 2-D and 3-D is somewhat awkward in the early episodes, it improves greatly as the series progresses. The character design gets better also, with more detailed, expressive facial features becoming quite evident. The races are edited and designed with great skill and thought. These sequences are genuinely exciting even to those of us who never followed any kind of auto racing outside of Speed Racer and action movie car chases. And, besides, the technical aspects of this form of racing, particularly the all-important practice of "drifting," are adequately spelled out for novices--to the point where the series might even be called educational. The music track deserves singling out for its lively collection of pulsating, catchy songs in the Eurobeat style popular in Japan. The songs come into play in the opening and closing credit sequences and during the racing sequences (where they work perfectly). The instrumental tracks during the quieter scenes are expertly done as well.
  • January 4, 2009
    phewwwwiiiitt!!!!
    hansamu...

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