I think the CGI of the movie is far more believable and lifelike compared to the newer movies

@MisticDW

2 жыл бұрын

There's load of new movies that have scenes that don't even look like CG

@ciello___8307

2 жыл бұрын

ehh some scenes its good and others it hasn't aged well. Tokyo drift used a lot of practical stunts, but some scenes like where sean drifts the red Evo on the highway look pretty fake.

@djw5415

Жыл бұрын

That’s because they aren’t stupid unbelievable stunts like the new FF movies. I hate the new ones

“Tokyo Drift” is definitely the most underrated film in the franchise. The lack of both Paul Walker and Vin Diesel in leading roles seemed to place a dark cloud over an otherwise entertaining movie.

@nicholascrow8133

2 жыл бұрын

Some of the best actual driving in the franchise!

@lukedanielgalon1596

2 жыл бұрын

it is entertaining and a journey for Sean

@PHATT_TV

2 жыл бұрын

Totally agree

@SRTGHOSTS

2 жыл бұрын

It’s because people hate when you start a franchise then replace them different actors. I like Tokyo drift but prefer walker and diesel. I’m glad Tokyo drift boys got to return in fast 9.

@Tyler_Mayhem

2 жыл бұрын

Tokyo drift was my fave movie of the series. I liked 1 and 2 and td. I didn't like anything after that

This only makes Tokyo Drift all the more impressive and it’s disappointing how slept on it is. I personally have always taken quite a liking to this particular film in the franchise.

@shortthrowshiftycarshow2161

2 жыл бұрын

It's my favourite one by far

@pjsneeringer5942

2 жыл бұрын

To myself, 1 of the better FF. Poor acting/actors,but original idea

@pjsneeringer5942

2 жыл бұрын

JDM baby

@maurisanto7973

2 жыл бұрын

@@pjsneeringer5942 who cares about acting ff was never known for having good actors or winning Oscar's it's about cars and underground racing wich is why people hate the franchise nowadays

@JamesSanderson85

2 жыл бұрын

Any true fan knows it's the best one.

Japan : exists, but not allowed USA : 3D prints japan at home.

Its a testament to the film that I never noticed the cg. Tokyo Drift is the most underrated film in the series.

Not gunna lie after finding about the Visuals… this movie should’ve had an Oscar nomination for special effects😂

@tar5us452

2 жыл бұрын

Agreed. But it went up against Pirates of the Caribbean (winner), Superman Returns, Poseidon. I think it was better than Poseidon from a VFX standpoint because of the use of high speed moving frames, moving subject, and CG location. The issue is that Poseidon only got its nomination because it was produced by Wolfgang Petersen . The Academy is complete trash and has no bearing on anything and should be ignored completely. Bunch of alleged Kid F'ers.

IMO the Shibuya-scene is one of the best scenes in Fast & Furious overall. Funny enough that Tokyo Drift is my favourite FF movie even though i love Paul Walker as Brian.

@basithph8958

2 жыл бұрын

Same

@nabilbudiman271

2 жыл бұрын

the purest cars and tuner movies out of all FF franchise

@lovemedavid4094

2 жыл бұрын

@@nabilbudiman271 exactly why

@LilSuperman619

2 жыл бұрын

It makes me glad that I ain’t the only one who’s fav fast movie is tokyo drift

@yert8527

2 жыл бұрын

The best scene is the first street race in ff1

I didn't realize so much was faked. I knew it wasn't exactly real but I didn't know that much was CG.

It’s sad that a movie about actual racing is less popular

Tokyo Drift has aged so well. Def the best movie out of all.

this is absolutely fascinating. I see why film school exists now.

@Raph333

2 жыл бұрын

You will lean more from this video than film school

This just makes me like Toyko drift way more now

My whole life was a lie😂😂

Thank you for sorting this out there a stupid post on IG saying they used a fake director to take a fall for filming in in Japan and he went jail.

@code111japan

2 жыл бұрын

This is correct, and Craig mentioned in another video as well. You have to understand that even shooting simple scenes which they did is illegal if it's obstructing pedestrians and their surroundings (good luck trying to blend in with whole film crew lol).

The only real thing is..the Drift King Keiichi Tsuchiya fishing while watching Sean practice😆

They did ma boy Sean dirty in F9....

@paulreichelt1259

2 жыл бұрын

Hell yes they did it was a shame, actually made the three of them look stupid unfortunately.

@MrShadowchief

2 жыл бұрын

Massacred my boy

5:46 I KNEW IT I told everyone it was filmed at the Hawthorne mall! No one believes me 😂😂

Wow that's crazy, didn't realize there was so much cg involved. They really pulled it off well!

Tokyo Drift was very realastic even without filming the major scenes on Tokyo.

Extremely impressive. Tokyo Drift was a masterpiece, it gives me loads of nostalgia these days.

Ahhh Yes. When Fast and Furious Was Really about Cars and Racing And Not about Super Soldier, Virus That Would take over the world and SpaceShip. The Good Days

@FCT8306onTwoWheels

2 жыл бұрын

Waiting on that Fast and Furious vs. Aliens and Predator

@1ShaksB3

2 жыл бұрын

@@FCT8306onTwoWheels Ikr when They start to Drive the Transformers to defeat Dinosuars

@FCT8306onTwoWheels

2 жыл бұрын

@@1ShaksB3 oh damn Shia Lebouf about to make a comeback in Fast and Furious

Usually CG ages bad but I don't have this impression with this movie at all. The teams did marvelous work.

It will never be the same now when I watch this movie. It is amazing how they do all the cg. Even all this AI stuff today.

@crunchy1547

4 ай бұрын

AI…you mean artificial intelligence?

Oh yeah, Tokyo Drift is hands down my favourite F&F film. Yeah the acting and dialogue is horrendous, but every real car person sees right past that and takes it for the fun and inspirational car film it is!! i would have never guessed this film wasnt shot in Tokyo

@code111japan

2 жыл бұрын

I would, but only beacause I live here. You can't help but notice small details such as totally fake looking license plates and stuff. That being said, my favorite F&F movie with no discussion.

Fast and the Furious: California Drift

@ahkiii_

2 жыл бұрын

California *Drag

Next livestream: "Hey did you know Tokyo Drift was not filmed in Tokyo?!" 🤣

Hands down visually i think Tokyo Drift was by far the best movie of the franchise

Fun facts: Vin Diesel in the ending scene also a CGI

@trippnoutmotorsport3164

2 жыл бұрын

Wrong

So.. it must be a " LOS ANGELES DRIFT " 🤭

@jesusmarquez9948

2 жыл бұрын

yea hahahaha lmaoo Ienva

@lenva6537

2 жыл бұрын

@@jesusmarquez9948 thats a truth 😂

@Hinshu85

2 жыл бұрын

And that lunch! Came from an hawaian teppanyiaki restaurant nearby.

@pyroblade5287

2 жыл бұрын

AMeriCaNs CAn’t DRiFt

@pyroblade5287

2 жыл бұрын

American Drift

That's actually seriously impressive especially since I do video work as well. I would have never guessed that most of the film was not shot in Japan. The car stunts, sure, but the actual location not being in Japan? Wow, Tokyo Drift should have gotten an Oscar nomination at least.

Fast Five also wasn't filmed in Brazil, it was Puerto Rico

@trippnoutmotorsport3164

2 жыл бұрын

Repeating what’s in the video

Did u know Keiichi Tsuchiya aka the real drift king did some drifting for the movie and also some of the Evo scenes

@trippnoutmotorsport3164

2 жыл бұрын

He only did a few shots in the evo

Tokyo drift was an underrated technical work of art

Tokyo Drift is seriously underrated, I still dont understand why this movie is slept on. Also its the movie which is most about street racing in the entire franchise.

I think that for anyone who has some basic Geographic knowledge on Japan and the US it was quite obvious that a lot of this movie was shot in California. The off-road driving scenes showed mountains with few trees and dry grass. Japan is very humid and very rainy, especially during Summer (in most of Japan that is, Winter is wetter in some parts). There's also the fact that in a lot of the scenes, the sky was completely clear. These past few days have happened to be really sunny and hot in Southern Japan but they're relatively rare. It's little things like that which give away the fact that it was primarily not filmed in Japan. I must say Tokyo Drift is one of my favourite movies ever. Most other Fast and Furious movies don't seem to be about racing anymore unfortunately. There's a reason why Rush is one of the most loved racing movies ever after all. It's because it's actually about racing. The whole Japanese ambience of Tokyo Drift with all the Japanese cars was such a nice idea, especially since most racing movies show American muscle cars or expensive European brands. So, this was a nice touch to the franchise I must say Edit: another thing is you can clearly see which scenes were shot in Japan or were CGI and which ones were shot in the US depending on the road. Japan's roads have different road markings. For example, the scene where Han is chased towards the end has double yellow lines in the middle of the street to divide the right lanes and left lanes. I don't think they actually exist in Japan

"Can I get a copy of that?"

14:42 and 14:48 next time ask before you steal my content :) Btw this is not even from the movie, this is my own personal project

@Kyler_951

2 жыл бұрын

Relax buddy

@thana3270

2 жыл бұрын

@@Kyler_951 He has every right to express his opinion/concerns this way Especially considering that he did not receive any credit what so ever.

@3litza

2 жыл бұрын

I agree with Rik Steffen has every right to point out that his work got used without his permission.

@JohnnyFehr

2 жыл бұрын

@@Kyler_951 yeah working on a personal project for months and relax when you see that after this many hour of work a random stranger comes and uses your content without asking or crediting... go home you are drunk...

@somedude9431

2 жыл бұрын

The answer to this is simple! All he has to do is put "with Steffen Hampel 'style' five seconds" in the description since that apparently absolves all copyright infringement...if this dudes channel is anything to go off...did he ask the Studio who owns Blade Runners lawyers before stealing their work? Or contacted Mike Pondsmith before stealing his?....

Damn, had me fooled. I really thought it was shot in Japan. Hollywood is pretty good at making it believable Ill give em that.

@gathel8574

Жыл бұрын

Only few who shot at real Tokyo

Still one of the best car movie out there

@hemi3005

2 жыл бұрын

Yup

Han: Tokyo is my mexico Craig Liberman: Tokyo is my Los Angeles, California. Me: so then which is it? is this like a glitch in the matrix?

Besides the first one, this is my favourite one

I was fooled always thought was Japan and some little parts filmed in La

@jesusmarquez9948

2 жыл бұрын

me too lol

I live a few blocks from Cabrillo high school so I enjoyed the shout out lol

Tokyo Drift was not filmed in Tokyo? My childhood was a big fat lie 😂

@josedelacruz1293

2 жыл бұрын

So true

I dont care where the movie is filmed. As long the movie is a banger, I'll enjoy it

My life is a lie

@paulcarmi8130

2 жыл бұрын

You really thought, all of this time, that this was really filmed in Japan?

@luisonnaz125

2 жыл бұрын

@@paulcarmi8130 No shit it looked so real when I was 7

@paulcarmi8130

2 жыл бұрын

@@luisonnaz125 oof. That has ta' hurt!

@FishFind3000

2 жыл бұрын

@@paulcarmi8130 pretty sure it was sarcasm

@paulcarmi8130

2 жыл бұрын

@@FishFind3000 read his second comment, doesn't look like sarcasm

Great video, Tokyo Drift made me a carguy when i was 4 years old and is still my favorite F&F Movie to this day with F&F 1

Everyone always badmouthed Tokyo drift when it came out only because the original cast wasn't in it. I watched it and enjoyed it very much and didn't care about the original cast being absent. I was curious what the story was for them as we never got a conclusion. But it didn't hurt the movie for me.

I still remember watching this on HBO when I was a kid in my dad's apartment. It was the first fast and furious movie I've ever watched. Would've been nice if they added those deleted scenes to give more depth to the story but yeah I understand every movie has a time limit. And now after I've watched every fast movie, this still, for me, goes on the top of my list.

I know there was no way they could have blocked the famous shibuya crossing even for a few minutes for a such a dangerous scene, but it still blows my mind thinking about it

Hello Craig, great episode! All Tokyo Drift facts are welcome- many of us shares Your opinion- there were much effort put in this movie and it shame thats wasn't awarded back in the days :( Lemme ask again- did you considered make another episode with special guest- in this case with Toshi? I'm still wondering how's Your feelings about beeing replaced by Toshi? Is it possible to catch up with him? We are HUNGRY for some trivia, like: -buying actualy japanese Tokyo Auto Saloon demo cars as "Heros" (like Veilside's Fortune) -Tsuchiyas involvement (I've heard he was forced to driving more rough to mimic Sean's learning progress) - Toshi as Extra in the background crowd or plane scene (I noticed 3 Toshi's "cameos" maybe theres more) -Mustang fake plates (zero can't be first dight, also theres special hiragana "Y" for US military) -backgrond cars driving one way, and than opposite way in (under) viaduct chase scene -JDM Insider dvd playing in the background TV's These are few found by myself. I BET theres many more! Keep up good work Craig- Imagine: I dislikes series after 5th movie, but absolutely loves what You doing here! Cheers!

Still the best F&F in my opinion. Wish they could do a new franchise with a similar vibe without having anything to do with the F&F story.

Your production is getting great Craig! Quality content man, thanks for posting.

Tokyo drift still holds the most impressive shots and rich cinematic story of all movies. the cars and locations make the movie so good. the VFX companies did a really impressive job on this and should have won awards because it convinced mostly everyone the movie was filmed in Japan.

They named a neighbourhood driveway after a decepticon transformer. Lol Warpath

For anyone wondering, the green screen keying and cyberpunk thingy were by Ian Hubert

Very informative video. I would never have imagined how much work went into producing these scenes. Scenes which have stood the test of time. Loved the film as its focus was still on cars. Thanks.

5:45 they did a great job making it look and feel like japan

keep em coming Craig!! love these vids!

I loved Tokyo Drift when it came out. It's still my favorite Fast&Furious movie.

I have a sick Hot Wheels of the girls blue & silver GTR that Han does donuts around..i had no idea it was from that part of the movie but now i do and it makes me like it that much more.

@MichaelBrown-js1ti

2 жыл бұрын

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I remember you going over this in a previous video.. Good to have a recap.. I love how you mentioned the Oro Valley, AZ.. That is a small city north of Tucson, AZ.. For some reason F&F movies enjoy including Arizona for their movies, whether it is the first movie with Brian's 2G Eclipse with AZ plates, and his drivers license or the 3rd including Oro Valley High School and the police station where the cop has Sean for questioning.. Good video tho, keep them up..

Even know my childhood days I thought the really film it in Tokyo but once I researched it I was completely shock, plus this visual effects are amazing it really feels like your in Tokyo, unbelievable Without Tokyo Drift I will never become in love Tokyo, Tokyo Drift is the reason why I wanted to go to Japan And it is an amazing movie, I one my favorite movies of all

Fast and Furious franchise: Refuses to die. Craig Lieberman: Hold my steering wheel

The reflection and particle physics work is what impressed me. That seems more on par with what a game studio does then something that a movie studio does.

That’s incredibly impressive and definitely a trick that has carried on today. Having a convincing looking location that is CG makes movies all that much better and more convincing.

Thanks for the list of the companies. I cant even imaging how hard it must been with that big green screens on buildings. Legends

The last movie about *cars* in the franchise...

For the time, it was an incredible amount of work that ended up looking perfect, this days, some artists in his home could do it in a few weeks, digital production has changed so much so fast

@christopherpoussin3948

2 жыл бұрын

I don’t know. This movie CGI still hold up today because they use it in smart (expensive) ways. A lot of movies today (Marvels, Star Wars, etc) just the lazy approach, and it just sticks out.

I always love it when they are filming through the windshield and the cars shift lever is in park

Wow hats off to everyone who had a part in making this movie! One of the best movies in the franchise in my opinion.

I'm sure there was a story by Craig that the drift through the busy intersection scene was filmed for real in Japan and a Japenese guy was hired to pretend to be the director, so when they got caught he spent the night in jail instead of the actual director?

@ggj1987

2 жыл бұрын

That’s right, I remember that too! I don’t know which video it was though

@omgurheadsgone

2 жыл бұрын

It wasn’t the drift through the busy instersection, it was some other scene.

@XxPapaDanxX

2 жыл бұрын

It was the sumo guy when sean said okane

@ciello___8307

2 жыл бұрын

if you've been to japan before you could tell most of the racing was filmed in LA. Like the parking garage definitely didn't look like japan, and the big tunnel before shibuya was obviously Grand avenue in Downtown LA. Also the mountain scenes were definitely not japan since some of the signs and road markings were wrong.

I can’t imagine they put that green screen behind the Car Parking Lot, it was so cool.

Actually I'm shocked after all these informations in this video. Like wow... I was like 6-7 years old when this movie came out and always had a special place in my heart, but now knowing all these details and background stuffs... it completely changes how I overview this whole movie (and in a positive way). It's literally an insane amount of work done in the right way, so mad salute to everyone who worked on this project!!

These videos are fascinating, thank you Craig

ow ow what is next Keiichi Tsuchiya was rendered too :-D , great videos as always

@4g63_Everything

2 жыл бұрын

😂😂😂 that can't be

My childhood is now ruined

It's funny that I've watched Tokyo drip more than any of the other Fast and Furious movies. Good thanks for taking time to make this video it is very interesting!

@giancarlo418

2 жыл бұрын

Amogus drip

Wow gotta give credit to everyone involved definitely one of my favorite movies hands down

"2 dudes from the ghetto in space... aint nobody gon believe us"

14:40 Front wheel drive Golf drifting. That's Hollywood magic^^

I really enjoyed this video thank you, maybe because this is my favorite movie in the series.

It truly is movie magic, awesome video man :)

Amazing. All these years I thought that film was actually shot in Tokyo. Bravo!

Very good video Craig 👍. I like the content. I have seen people working with maya and Houdini. Making lights matching on the models and the smoke must had been difficult. Very good video 👌

Today I feel very blessed to be close enough to make the trip to this location. Anyone from norcal is welcome to come 👍 I definitely want to start a rally there and back

Great video Craig! I want full production review from every fast and furious (except F9)

So cool. Honestly never thought the cars were vfx models in some shots!

That Legends Media shirt 🔥 (Yes Dut Squad over here lol). Nice video Craig. :)

14:42 is that a FWD GTI drifting?

Oh wow...they can even can transform a city to another....in CGI of course, but still damn wow🤯

I actually liked the fact that this was mostly cg, they did a good job on it and the camera angles they had to use were actually my favorite camera angles and shots in any fast movie

By far the most underrated f&f movie in the franchise. My 2nd fav after the original!

I for one have always been into CG ever since i watched a show called FX Masters on the FX Channel. It was hosted by Christopher Reeves and talked about all kinds of things from stunt men to how practical or CG was used... I was fascinated by this and have always enjoyed how Hollywood could make me disappear to a different world... Thanks for your Insite and yes this is the best one over all...

How fitting that this video came out just as Rockstar added an RX7 and a Fairlady/ 350/370z in GTA 5 for the latest Los Santos Tuners Update ☺️

Did you know that Avatar was shot nowhere even close to pandora? In fact it was actually shot 250 billion light-years from pandora and they used CG to make it look as authentic as possible

@kedskies

2 жыл бұрын

No they lied to you...they went to Pandora

@QuixEnd

2 жыл бұрын

@@kedskies hmmmm. I mean idk why you'd make that up so I believe you.

childhood ruined but in a good and mature way Adding more appretiation to it

I do not understand how this film couldnt be as hit as the first two movies

what the... next thing we know, someone says Star Wars was not filmed in space :/

That sumo wrestler "with the paw" got arrested while filming in Japan and spent a night in jail in Justin's place