Japan Synopsis
“On the streets of Tokyo, speed needs no translation.”
In order to avoid a jail sentence, Sean Boswell heads to Tokyo to live with his military father. In a low-rent section of the city, Shaun gets caught up in the underground world of drift racing
Audience Engagement
6,222 audience reviews — more than 100% of Japan films in our index.
Review volume (100th percentile) outruns trending popularity (63th) — a durable title with sustained audience attention.
Titles With Overlapping Themes
Films and series that share thematic tags with The Fast and the Furious: Tokyo Drift. Number on each card indicates how many keywords overlap.
Action + Crime in Japan
188 Japan titles in our catalog blend the Action and Crime genres. Below: the top-rated of them (excluding The Fast and the Furious: Tokyo Drift itself).
The 2005–2007 Japan Window
The Fast and the Furious: Tokyo Drift holds position #234 of 364 Japan films in the 2005–2007 window, below highlighted by audience rating.
The 2000s Japan Landscape
2006 was the decade’s peak output year for Japan — 134 titles released, including The Fast and the Furious: Tokyo Drift. Bars below show how the 2000s stacked up year by year (1020 total).
Budget & Box Office Efficiency
At a 1h 44m runtime, production spent $817K per minute on screen and earned $1.5M per minute back.
Position in Catalog
Released alongside 133 other Japan films in 2006.
The 1829th Japan title from Japan we index (earliest catalogued entry: 1899).
Our Japan catalog contains 4,579 titles in total (2,908 films).
Thematic Fingerprint
Tags on The Fast and the Furious: Tokyo Drift, grouped by how common each theme is across the full Asian catalog. Rare tags are more distinctive signals.
- car journey · 2
- car mechanic · 1
- car garage · 1
- auto-tuning · 1
- car race · 11
- street race · 9
- drifting · 6
- japan · 454
- tokyo · 78
Reception Benchmarks
Ranked #3,061 of 4,579 Japan films indexed here (33rd percentile by TMDB audience score).
Rating is -0.4 points below the Japan average of 6.9/10.
Among Japan Action productions specifically: #1,199 of 1,714 (top 70%).
Production Details
| Primary Country | Japan |
|---|---|
| All Production Countries | Germany, Japan, United States of America |
| Original Language | En |
| Spoken Languages | English, Japanese |
| Production Companies | MP Munich Pape Filmproductions, Original Film, Relativity Media, Universal Pictures |
| Runtime | 1h 44m |
| Release Date | June 3, 2006 |
| IMDb | tt0463985 |
| Official Site | www.thefastsaga.com |