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The Fast and the Furious: Tokyo Drift (2006) More at IMDbPro »

• Continuity: When Sean is first given the red Mitsubishi Lancer Evolution IX, his numerous collisions while practicing around the harbor tear off the rear spoiler. As he starts practicing on the hills, the EVO is first seen without the spoiler, but on the first shot of him driving uphill, the spoiler is on the trunk. Subsequent shots show the EVO without the spoiler.
  
  
• Revealing mistakes: In the high speed chase scene in which they're drifting through traffic, the skid marks from previous takes are very visible on the street.
  
  
• Continuity: During the Tokyo street chase scene, D.K. rams and bumps Shawn's EVO and sustains damage on his Nissan Fairlady Z. However, on the shots after Han's RX-7 is destroyed, there are virtually no scratches or dents on the Z.
  
  

• Continuity: When Han's car gets blown-up, a character in the driver seat is no longer there when the flames go up.
  
  
• Continuity: When Twinkie is trying to sell Sean a laptop and phone when they first meet in the school canteen, Sean has some food between his chopsticks, which disappears and reappears again between shots.
  
  
• Continuity: When Sean is first learning how to drift with his red Evo, he crashes into a pile of wood causing his spoiler to break off. However, in the next scene when you see Sean inside his car, the spoiler is shown in the back window as if it never came off.
  
  
• Continuity: In the final race with DK, the spoiler on his car falls off. In one shot further into the race it is back on the car.
  
  
• Crew or equipment visible: In the scene when Sean and Han are both in his Evo as he's learning to drive on the pier, the camera zooms in on the right left tire. Coming from the right of the screen are sparks from the camera boom hitting the pavement
  
  
• Continuity: In the final moments of the last race between DK and Sean, the Fairlady Z sideswipes the Mustang and loses its passenger side light. Then in an attempt to pass Sean, DK drives up the side of the hill where small trees and shrubs knock out the drivers headlight. In subsequent scenes, the driver's headlight is attached and working.
  
  
• Miscellaneous: During the confrontation between Neela, DK, Sean, and his dad, after the accident that claims the life of Han, the camera is near the headlight of the Fairlady Z. If you look closely to the bottom right of the screen, you can see where the lens of the camera caused distortion from the headlights and cause light circles on screen for a few seconds.
  
  
• Continuity: When telling DK she's breaking up with him in his little office, Neela's tie suddenly changes from hanging rather on her left to hanging straight down the middle.
  
  
• Continuity: In the beginning of the film when the baseball is thrown through the back window of Sean's car, the camera switches to a higher viewpoint in which you see him stop the car. In this shot the window isn't broken yet although the baseball has gone through it. In the next shot it is broken again.
  
  
• Continuity: Shortly after Twinkie's Volkswagen Touran "Hulkmobile" minivan is introduced in the film, Shawn and Twinkie drive off. In the next scene where the Touran enters the car park, a set of tires appear on its roof. This was from a deleted scene where Reiko and Earl steal tires from a gas station.
  
  
• Crew or equipment visible: During the race with Cray, when he parallel's with the black truck, the camera and cameraman riding on his car can be seen reflected on the truck's painting.
  
  
• Continuity: During the race with Cray, just before he turns to the dirt path, when he looks at the Viper, it's under the shade of the house, but on the air scene, it's still on a sunny spot.
  
  
• Revealing mistakes: In the Viper car race scene, when the baseball goes through the window, the driver puts the car in park, via a steering wheel mounted shifter. Yet during the race the car has a clutch, and yet the floor shifter is automatic.
  
  
• Continuity: In the first drift race with DK and Sean in the Parking garage, the Nissan Fairlady Z and Nissan Silvia S15 have their lights on and off and then on again in various scenes during the race.
  
  
• Continuity: In the garage his engine block was all chrome, but during the time his car was flipping the engine block was orange.
  
  
• Continuity: When Sean is talking to Han as he's about to practice on the mountain with the Evo for the first time, it shows the Evo with no rear spoiler. But as he's drifting, it shows the Evo with a spoiler again.
  
  
• Audio/visual unsynchronized: When Lucas Boswell hits the nitrous in the Veilside RX-7 around 42 minutes, you hear the engine revs maxing out but the rev counter shows the revs continually rising.
  
  
• Miscellaneous: When the Viper hits the concrete pipe the interior shot of the airbags deploying shows the passenger seat empty, and the film is flipped so it looks like a right hand drive.
  
  
• Continuity: At the very beginning of the movie, where Sean first arrives in Tokyo, he has a guitar on his back. However, when Sean arrives at his fathers house, all he has is hand luggage, and no guitar. Deleted scenes on the DVD reveal a cut scene, in which Sean gives a taxi driver his guitar as payment.
  
  
• Continuity: In the beginning of the movie, when the baseball is thrown at Sean's car, you see it go past him and land on the passenger floorboard, but in the next shot, the ball is seen falling to the ground with glass landing behind the rear tire, as if the ball had been thrown from inside the car.
  
  
• Miscellaneous: At around 47:25 when Sean is learning how to drift, when he slides to a stop the car rolls back, the same scene is used when Han is sitting with Sean in the car at the 55:44 mark. The only difference is at the 55:44 mark they cut a little off when the car rolls back and comes to a stop.
  
  
• Continuity: At the start of the final race with DK the lines marked on the road under Sean's car go from the left to the right side of the car.
  
  
• Continuity: During the first race, in America, you see the viper drive through a shadow of the house before Shaun takes the shortcut in between the houses, but when the camera moves out and shows both cars from above the shadow is no longer there.
  
  
• Continuity: In the scene where Sean and Neela are trying Japanese food on their first date, Neela puts the chopsticks in the box and when the camera focuses on Sean with Neela in the foreground, we can see her holding the chopsticks again. And when the camera cuts back focusing on Neela, the chopsticks are in the box again.
  
  
• Continuity: When Shawn messes up Han's car in the beginning you can clearly see that it's totaled. Later on when Han takes Shawn in the back where the garage is, you see the Nissan Silvia perfectly fine when the camera is panning. Later on in the movie when the go to fix the mustang, they go to get the engine from the Silvia and it's totaled again.
  
  
• Factual errors: License plate on Twinkie's car. If Twinkie was an army brat his license plate would have a Japanese symbol that looks like a "Y" on the left side. All Military members and their families that have cars in Japan are required to have "Y" plates.
  
  
• Factual errors: Sean's father is credited as being "Major Boswell". In a scene where he is in Naval uniform, his shoulder board clearly displays the two full stripes of a full Lieutenant and the collar insignia, while improperly gold, also is the two bars of a Lieutenant. The rank of full Lieutenant in the Navy is O-3. Major is not a Naval rank but used in the Marine Corps, Army, and Air Force and is O-4 and equivalent to that of a Lieutenant Commander in the Navy. Major is denoted by a gold oak leaf cluster instead of twin silver bars. A Lieutenant Commander in the Navy also carries the gold oak leaf cluster on his collar and the shoulder board carries two full strips and one half strip between.
  
  
• Factual errors: During Sean's first practice run in the Evo IX, a fisherman makes a snide remark in Japanese. It is translated by subtitles as "You call that drifting?" This is a mistranslation. Translated correctly, the fisherman said "Counter-steer is late, huh?"
  
  
• Continuity: When Sean is practicing drifting in the shipyard he hits various obstacles multiple times, yet in all subsequent shots there is no damage to his car.
  
  
• Continuity: When Sean hits the halfway closed garage door when leaving Han's shop it does no damage to the car, despite the door hitting just above the windshield and scraping along the roof of the car.
  
  
• Factual errors: Various boosted cars (such as the RX-7) do not have the signature sounds that upgraded turbocharged cars have throughout the film, such as the turbo spooling and the blow-off valve, until they "hit the nitrous." Nitrous does not change the sound the car makes.
  
  
• Revealing mistakes: When Han and Sean are in the RX-7 and talking, the engine tone shifts at least 7 times, as if the car has 7 or 8 gears, most of which have the same ratio and thus engine tone. Sean's hands remain on the steering wheel throughout the drive, yet the shifts still occur. In addition, they do not have the pitch a manual car would have (revs dropping from engaging the clutch, then shifting into the next gear). The two transmission choices for the car were a 4 speed automatic and a 5 speed manual. This is a recurring mistake in the Fast and Furious movie line.
  
  
• Anachronisms: The city of Oro Valley was founded in 1974. Not 1919 like the sign in the Sheriff's department says.
  
  
• Continuity: During the first race between the Monte Carlo and Viper, the starter pulls off her bra, throws it in the air and it lands about 10 feet in front of the two cars. The race starts, they both shifts gears, accelerate for a few seconds and then are shown driving past the bra, which is now miraculously 100 to 200 feet up from where it landed originally.
  
  
• Revealing mistakes: In America, the jocks seem to be wearing football uniforms, yet the guy with viper puts a baseball bag in the front seat and throws a baseball at the Monte Carlo.
  
  

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