Continuity mistake: When Sean meets Twinkie, his glass is almost full to the brim. A shot later, it's half empty.
Continuity mistake: Sean's dad helps a woman put on her coat and extends his right arm. A shot later, it's suddenly lowered. (00:14:11)
Continuity mistake: The way Sean's mom holds her cigarette changes between shots: sometimes it's straight, others slightly skewed. This keeps changing back and forth between shots. (00:11:10 - 00:12:00)
Continuity mistake: At the police station, a cop grabs Sean's T-shirt while he turns around to watch his mother step in. A shot later, the cop has vanished.
Continuity mistake: The size of the hole and the overall damage on Sean's car is much bigger when the ball hits the glass before the race than when the car crashes.
Revealing mistake: When Sean and Clay race, Sean drives from the dirt road to the paved road, and skid marks from a previous take are visible. (00:06:46)
Continuity mistake: When the movie begins, Sean drives away while Clay stares, left arm bent upwards. A shot later, his arm is lowered.
Continuity mistake: During the final drift between Sean and D.K., shortly after D.K.'s first crash, a parked Nissan Figaro's rear license plate is briefly shown as being Californian, although the front plate in the previous cut is Japanese. (01:30:25)
Visible crew/equipment: When Sean is learning to drift in the Evo, In numerous shots you can see the camera reflected in the wing mirror of the car. (00:45:00)
Continuity mistake: The damage to the main protagonist's vehicle changes considerably during the race in the parking garage. See the right side for reference.
Other mistake: Sean is seventeen, and he goes to high school (and without knowing a word of Japanese, he somehow gets by). Neela is a classmate of his, so she should be around his age; she was raised in Japan. When she drives him down the mountain road she starts a nostalgic reminiscence about the time when she got her license "Once I got my license, I practically lived up here. Back then, kids just drove what they had. You know, we just made do. No one bothered us." She's reciting lines like she's an old lady talking about ye days of old; she's supposed to be a teenager! And you get a driving license in Japan at 18, she shouldn't even have one, and if she did, she got it very recently. (01:01:00)
Continuity mistake: In the scene where Twinkle first shows his car to Sean, you see that it is a plain green hulk VW, but 2 secs later when they turn up to the multistorey carpark for the meet/drift race, it has a set of 4 tyres on the roof. (00:19:20)
