As a result, the story threads from Tokyo Drift were largely abandoned, and the actual film never got a proper continuation. The two sequels that followed, Fast Five and Fast & Furious 6, continued to builds towards Tokyo Drift, before Furious 7 finally caught up to that film (as Fast & Furious 6 revealed it would during its post-credits scene).īy the time Furious 7 arrived in 2015, the Fast & Furious property had fully transitioned from a series of crime-thrillers about illegal street racing into a collection of heist movies, espionage adventures, and other covert missions featuring Dom and his extended family of outlaws.

As Han had seemingly perished during Tokyo Drift, Fast & Furious was set prior to the events of that film, allowing the character to share the screen with Dom and his family for the first time. Related: Fast & Furious: Why Paul Walker DIdn't Return in Tokyo DriftĪfter that, Lin and Morgan teamed up with Diesel and the other stars of the original Fast and the Furious (Paul Walker, Michelle Rodriguez, and Jordana Brewster) to make 2009's Fast & Furious, which reversed the series' downward trend at the box office. It was also the first film in the series to be directed by Lin and written by Chris Morgan, both of whom would go on to shape the storytelling style and aesthetics of the Fast & Furious brand moving forward.

However, in the years since then, it's come to be regarded as one of the more essential installments thanks to its introduction of the fan-favorite character Han Lue (Sung Kang), and a last-minute cameo by Vin Diesel as Dom that convinced Universal to make another sequel (based on the enthusiastic responses to his appearance).

Released in 2006, Tokyo Drift went on to become the lowest-grossing Fast & Furious movie to date and was initially perceived as a disappointment.

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