Initial D
I finally remembered to watch “Initial D”, the HK movie based on the Japanese Manga/Anime. The movie looks nothing like the picture above, except for the car. I had no prior knowledge of the Initial D universe, but I got a taste of it through the movie. Kudos to them for shooting it on location in Japan.
My summary:
It’s a Story of a Tofu-delivery man. And he has a customer at the top of the mountain. So after years of delivery he got really good at delivering Tofu in a timely manner through those winding mountain roads. His car is shaped like a Tofu (pictured above).
Who the customer is remains a mystery. My guess is it’s some kind of resort or restaurant with nice views up there. They need a lot of Tofu.
Of course the main backdrop of the story is the underworld of drift racing. And the genius of this storyline is not something I can translate here, not that I know much of it. All I watched was this 3rd-party movie (which did a fine job).
Some cool trivia from imdb:
- Three new Toyota AE86 Sprinter Truenos, a car out of production since 1987, were especially built by Toyota for the film.
- A number of Toyota Trueno AE86 cars were used during production, at least one of which was personally wrecked by Jay Chou.
Ignore some flaws and it’s a pretty good movie. And it’s great to see Anthony Wong in there.
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