Initial D Tells Familiar Story But It’s Great To Watch!
Release DateJune 23rd 2005Directors Andrew Lau & Alan Mak Starring Jay Chou, Anne SuzukiRunning Time 1h 47min own the MOVIEOn DVD & Blu-ray
Surprisingly, Netflix has the Japanese mountain drift movie Initial D available for streaming. Since I had never seen it, and since I enjoy car movies, it seemed like an easy fit. Initial D (the “D” meaning drift) is a Japanese street racing manga series written and illustrated by Shuichi Shigeno. This live action film, released in 2005 by Japan’s Avex Inc. and Hong Kong’s Media Asia Group, was directed by Andrew Lau and Alan Mak.
I’m not sure exactly what I was expecting, but Initial D surprised me in a number of ways. The most surprising – and I don?t know a better way to put this – but it’s an amazingly American movie. Seriously, rather than being set in present day Japan, if you were to set this in SoCal in 1964, throw in some Beach Boys tunes and cast it with blue-eyed, blond-haired Anglos, it would be hard to tell the two apart. Plot and tone wise, at any rate.
Initial D Tells Familiar Story
Initial D is an wonderfully approachable movie. The whole thing – boys with fast cars, rivals with their fast cars, wary parents and authority figures that turn out cool, The Love Interest – is so standard for American car movies. Seeing the same thing, only with Toyotas and RX-7s, and drifting and tofu-maker parents and Japan...
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