Release DateJune 2005Directors Andrew Lau & Alan Mak Starring Jay Chou, Anne SuzukiRunning Time 1h 47min fun factToyota built three AE86 cars for filminggrab your copyDVD or Blu-ray

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Netflix has the Japanese mountain drift movie Initial D available for streaming. If you liked the original animated series, the full-length picture is definitely worth adding to your watch list. 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.
Initial D Tells Familiar Story In a Good Way

Initial D is a wonderfully approachable movie showing how the love for cars is universal. The whole of the film ? boys with fast cars, rivals with their fast cars, wary parents, authority figures, The Love Interest ? is also similar to what you see in American car movies. Watching the same thing, only with Toyotas and RX-7s and drifting, is both enjoyable and comforting.

The longer I watched Initial D, the more I realized: it?s a familiar story because we gearheads are familiar people, no matter what country we come from. Put another way: car peo...