Remember when Fast & Furious was actually about driving cars really fast and not about “family” or elaborate heists or jumping off the Hoover Dam or, uh, going to space?
That’s not to say there’s anything wrong with the later F&F movies, but there was certainly a key element lost along the way, and a rewatch of The Fast & The Furious: Tokyo Drift—streaming now for free on ad-supported service Tubi—makes it extremely obvious.
Juvenile delinquent Sean Boswell (played by Lucas Black) frequently gets into trouble in his native Arizona for his street-racing ways. After one race that ends in the total destruction of a neighborhood and two very expensive cars, Boswell is sent to live in Tokyo with his U.S. Navy lieutenant father. Very quickly, he meets classmates with a similar need for speed, who introduce him to Japan’s adrenaline junkie fix of choice—drift racing.
Tokyo Drift is slick,
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