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

“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.

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.

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😂

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.

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.

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.

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

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

My whole life was a lie😂😂

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

Fast and the Furious: California Drift

This just makes me like Toyko drift way more now

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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?

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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

Tokyo drift was an underrated technical work of art

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?"

My life is a lie

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

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.

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

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

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!

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

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.

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

Still one of the best car movie out there

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

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

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

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.

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.

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

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

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

Besides the first one, this is my favourite one

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

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

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

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

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

My childhood is now ruined

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..

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.

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?

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.

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

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.

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.

spoiler alert, craig made this crystal clear years ago.

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

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

keep em coming Craig!! love these vids!

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

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

These videos are fascinating, thank you Craig

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

Seems like many don't really know that it's a very common practice for film/TV productions to not actually film at the actual location the storyline supposedly takes place in.

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 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.

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

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

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

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

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 ☺️

Sean went from drifting to rocket science, fucking writers...

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!

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

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 👌

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

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!!

It truly is movie magic, awesome video man :)

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

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

Fun fact: The episodes of Breaking Bad where Walt is hiding out in "New Hampshire" were filmed in New Mexico as well Fun Fact 2: Many of the scenes in the 2003 film Lost in Translation, also set in Tokyo, were also shot guerrilla style.

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

14:42 is that a FWD GTI drifting?

It's like Transformers 2 I think the part when they were filming with the Pyramids I think that was filmed in New Mexico That's the port where you see devastator

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

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...

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