I celebrate Tokyo Drift’s 10 Year Anniversary by heading out to the parking garage where it was filmed.
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TOKYO DRIFT 10th Anniversary Screening Q&A JUST ME & THE CAST
THE FAST AND THE FURIOUS: TOKYO DRIFT 10th Anniversary Screening Q&A JUST ME & THE CAST – S2E25
I watch Tokyo Drift for the 200th time at the 10th Anniversary Screening.
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Han’s Garage is in Grease
We went to the Hollywood Bowl to see Grease Sing-a-Long & Sha Na Na was the musical opener. Frenchy (Didi Conn) was also there.
This was my first time seeing Grease & while watching the race scene, of course it would be that scene, I noticed Han’s Garage.
Tokyo Drift screen shot you can see the roof shape for Han’s Garage.
Grease screen shot above in the upper right corner is Han’s Garage.
Justin Lin & Rob Jones taking each others photo
I’m the bald guy in the front row with my iPhone in my hands who won a copy of The Fast & The Furious 1-3 on Blu-ray that’s in my lap with my wife & daughter sitting next to me.
Allyson Nicole Jones, Karen Jones & Rob Jones
Fred Raskin, Nikki Griffin, Justin Lin & Jen Yamato
My friend Shawn David Wright had some fun with Justin’s photo.
Tokyo Drift Q&A Justin Lin
Tokyo Drift Q&A with Justin Lin, Brian Tyler, Fred Raskin & Nikki Griffin hosted by Reporter Jen Yamato.
This was the 12th day of my vacation in Los Angeles, you can’t imagine how nervous & excited I was.
The New Beverly Cinema showed a double feature of King of the Mountain and The Fast and The Furious: Tokyo Drift followed by a Q&A after each film. Shown as part of Marc Edward Heuck’s Cinema Tremens series.
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Watch the videos and read the full article by Stephen Saito.
http://moveablefest.com/moveable_fest/2014/07/justin-lin-tokyo-drift.html
Marc Edward Heuck’s Blog
http://projectorhasbeendrinking.blogspot.com/
Tokyo Drift, Han’s Garage
Two years ago today I went to the filming location for Han’s Garage (The Fast and The Furious: Tokyo Drift) in Los Angeles, California. It was very cool as I’m a huge fan and I’ve met the actor who plays Han, Sung Kang. They did a great job of making you think it was in Tokyo, Japan.
Han Lives
Update 2014-05-17 Car Discussion with Sung Kang – Special Guest JUSTIN LIN
Update 2014-03-18, As much fun as it was to speculate & try to keep Han alive with my theory & your comments, the end of Fast 6 put an end to our fun. Han was alive for Fast 4, Fast 5, Fast 6 & Tokyo Drift & that concludes his story line.
2011-05-14 Before we begin I want to make sure everyone understands the chronological story order of the movies.
1. The Fast and the Furious (release date 2001)
2. 2 Fast 2 Furious (release date 2003)
3. Fast & Furious (release date 2009 prequel)
5. Fast Five (release date 2011 prequel)
6. Fast Six (release date 2013 prequel)
7. The Fast and the Furious: Tokyo Drift (release date 2006) We don’t know what happens after Tokyo Drift.
The worst part of Tokyo Drift was Han’s car accident. However, we never saw a funeral and other than a few people saying Han was dead there were never any scenes to prove it. It’s as if that’s what Han wanted them to believe. Think about it, he had a guy wanting to kill him and he just had an accident that would have them believing he was dead. It was a great plan since he needed time to heal and call in support, Dom.
The scene below is the end of the chase for Sean and Neela when they lose control and back into other cars. Right after this scene Han’s car hit from the side, lifted and flipped.
In the scene below Han has already been hit by another car and is hanging upside down presumably by his seat belt. It easy to assume a bystander is actually next to car reaching in for Han at this exact moment.
Between the above and below scene you will notice that enough time has passed that there are many bystanders. One bystander has already pulled Han from the car. Even in Han’s distressed state he is capable of getting to his feet and escaping from the accident under the cover of the flames of the explosion. Sean and DK are incapable of seeing Han from their vantage point because they’re on the opposite side with the explosion and flames between them.
The events of Fast & Furious (Letty’s possible death) and Fast Five (Letty’s possible escape) happen before Tokyo Drift (because they’re prequels) so we can assume that Han learned a trick or two from Letty about escaping a car that’s about to explode and then they disappear.
If Sean could see through the flames in the scene below he would see Han in the distance moving away from the accident. However, Sean would be looking down at the car thinking Han is still in it. Sean would not be looking straight ahead to the other side of the car.
Clearly enough time has passed that there are bystanders all around the accident. In a way I feel like for that to have happened some scenes were cut. Without cut scenes it’s still possible for Han to escape, however, it’s even easier when you realize for that many bystanders to be around more time elapsed than we were shown.
The scene below could be Han looking back and seeing Sean through the flames as he moved away from the explosion.
If DK could see through the flames in the scene below he would see Han in the distance moving away from the accident.
The scene below shows the distance and size of the flames after the explosion from Sean and Neela. By the time Neela reaches Sean, Han has already escaped the accident scene completely.
In following scenes we see Dom has shown up wanting to race Sean. Twinkie never indicates whether he knows Dom so I’m going to assume he actually does. The way Twinkie delivers his lines is more based on the fact that he knows Sean doesn’t know who Dom is. After Dom and Sean’s race I can imagine them going to a secret location to talk and Dom revealing that Han is alive and well, and they have a job.