ahh yes hes fishing on the docks when sean is tryin to drift his evo and hes mocking him sayin "You call that drifting?" i was retty psyched to see him in the movie

 

A lot of those girls were not Japanese at all. they are the usual suspects in the HIN world. Mostly philipino and Korean. just like the guys with the 350Z's in the movie. Oh well, I enjoyed the overall movie and the cameos by a lot of different people made for a fun people spotting time. Like Toshi Hayama of 360 video fame and VP of Apexusa or something along those lines.
Now why put a RB motor in a Mustang. Remember they are in Japan and I'm sure a Ford 351 isn't easy to come by. So you use whats available to you. i figured there was a RB in the S-15 the character used by the way it sounded during the 1st drift race.
So lets see, there was the RSR S2000, Rockstar S-13, What's up with the broom on top of Twinks car?, Numerous xB's, Falken RX-7, Signal S-13 and other D1 cars too. I'll have to get the DVD now to spot everyone else. But I hated how the screen would blur at my theater during the panning shots i the garages and such. that sucked. Oh yeah, was that Jay Laub's yellow NSX or the real deal Veialside one? I suspect the eal one since it had Veilside rims on it. Jay uses Volks. But who knows for the movie.

 

the purple broom ontop of twinkies car i think was suppose to be the hair of his hulk theme he had going. as far as finding an american motor for the mustang yeah realistically that would of been hard to come by, but how did dominic get his 70s roadrunner 426 in japan? the thing that just really drew back the mustang was the exhaust, very importish.

heres a pic of under the hood

 

most of the women in the movie werent japanese like you said. Getting japanese extras for the film was hard for the most part so when they olaced the extras in the scene, the japanese ones were placed close to the front first and then everyone else further back that wouldnt be noticed as much. A lot of the sound was re dubbed as the stunts w/ the mustang were done w/ the mustangs that still had american motors. As you know most of the cars used in the filming had replicas and one main showcase car that was in pristine condition. Only one mustang had that swap as it's too time consuming too do it to all 6 of them. Toshi is the techincal coordinator for the movie which i am glad he did cause he kept the movie grounded as much as it could be and still entertaining during the driving sequences. and no that wasnt jay laub's nsx that was a real veilside car. veilside had abig part in paid product placement for the movie obviously, then there was apr, toyo tires and a bunch of other companies.

 

^^^ i saw someone's ride in the background, hah.

M2Motoring, what what.

and glad they used the 'HIN Suspects'.
i love my KT So. mmmmm.

 

^^ When was that..i dont remember seeing that part in the movie, lol.
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hahaha thanks man =)

 

actually that scene was cut but the project car did pop up for like 2-3 secs in the beginning in the background. the scene they did near my car wasnt too realistic so i think they just cut it entirely. =(

 

Like tobassco and Mc Donalds (the tobassco was in his car when he crashed in the begining against Zackery Ty Brian (the kid from home improvement....still a terrible actor)

 

okay, that is the one detail that sets the real car away from the Jays. But there are a lot of muscle cars in Japan, so I didn't see that as a wacky detail. I've seen everything from 64 Impala lowriders too the very rare Hemi 'Cuda convertible. Vins car was tight. Too bad Veilsdie doesn't make more money off these movies. That's hardcore advertising.

 

yep product placement. it was very obvious on the set of the movie of what products are where. vw also has a contract w/ universal pictures to have vw's show up in just about any movie universal ever does car related or not. yeah i know theres a big following in japan for muscle cars and low riders, my best friends uncle use to import lowriders to japan. It's a big market for that kinda stuff. yeah the ride vin was driving was dope. well to me jay doesnt really build any og cars anymore he just copies catalog cars which to me isnt that exciting. building a car should be a reflection of you know what i mean? like your car for instance jim, its HOT. sure its over the counter parts in japan but the combo of it says jim all over it.

 

Did anyone else notice in the first scene that the Viper seemed to be having trouble pulling away from the pick-up full of people with video cameras. Yeah, I know it's a movie, but the still bothered me.

I will have to say, out of the 10 or so Scions in the parking lot after the movie, I didn't see anyone try anything stupid. As for the Honda owners...well, many of them made complete asses of themselves. The PoPo had a Civic or a Neon pulled over about every 200/300 yards on one main stretch after it was over. I drove around for a while just to see who was being stupid.

 

honda drivers...

 

I thought it was good. I was impressed. If you've seen the 1 and 2 you will see that there's a little love story in those too. I think its obvious as to why they put the Nissan engine in the stang, there wasn't another car for him to use and all he had was the mustang body and the nissan engine so what else could he do? So I don't see what all the hub bub is about putting a Nissan engine in the stang. I loved the drifting scenes. BTW what's DK's girlfriend's real name cuz she's hot! I didn't see cops anywhere after the movie. Although I did see 3 240SXs and a Camaro (not sure as to what year) out front of the theater, most likely to advertise for the movie. DK's Z was real nice too!

 

I haven't seen the movie yet, but I am sure that it is comparable to Memoirs of a Geisha. How can I make that stretch?

Both movies that are based in Japan, yet very little is shot in Japan.
Very few (if any) Japanese actors/actresses in entire film.
Bad acting all around.
Main characters are not Japanese, don't speak Japanese, or even LOOK Japanese.
All flash and little substance.
Exploits for a profit that which the movie is supposed to be glorifying.

I could go on.

 

who saw the 86 in the movie lol

 

There was a hachiroku in there somewhere?

The hottest girls in the movie were the ones in the blue car that "Han" drifted around to show Cornfed when and why he (Han) would actually drift his car. For "somethin important" - hot girls' phone numbers!

They should have given "Han" a Latino friend named "Chewie". At least then we would have had a reason why Vin Diesel shows up at the end. OR maybe "Chewie" was Vin's nickname when he was hanging with Han.

 

Some cheesiness but it was a pretty good movie. I like!

 

juuuust one question.

the legal age of dirving in japan is 18 and
how the hell are those guys able to drive?

 

I wish they said more about what some of the cars were and what kind of mods were done to them. The first movie had a lot in it about parts and modifications and stuff.
I would have been more interested in seeing some builds or drivers bragging about how much HP their ride makes. There was little mention about how any of these guy got these cars or modded them or how they became drifters.
I have seen this storyline in about a thousand different movies. They could have gone for some more originality and less product placement.

Was the main character the kid from Sling Blade? Sure looked like it to me...they should have thrown in a "I like the way you talk" or "I like them French fried 'taters."

Tabasco, Pepsi, Dodge, Nextel, TNT, Budweiser and Tampax present:
Fast and Furious 4: We're Just Out Of New Ideas....John Travolta, Samuel L Jackson, and Vin Diesel.
Then maybe throw in Johnny Knoxville and Stiffler as the Duke Boys in the General Lee, David Hasselhoff in KITT and Lindsay Lohan in Herbie.