Corrected entry: In the scene where Han dies, you can see tyre marks on the ground where the stunt crew has been practising (particularly the part where Sean drifts through the crowded square). These marks wouldn't normally be there, as cars don't generally drift through a crowded city centre.
Nick Bylsma
15th Jun 2007
The Fast and the Furious: Tokyo Drift (2006)
7th May 2007
The Fast and the Furious: Tokyo Drift (2006)
Corrected entry: In nearly all the race scenes as well as the Tokyo chase scene, you can see the skid marks on the road from previous takes.
Correction: This movie is about street racers. Those turns have been taken many, many, times before by many many many other racers. I'm pretty sure that these cars weren't the first ones to ever race the streets of Tokyo, the skid marks were left by previous racers that were not seen in the movie.
Correction: We're talking about skidmarks indicating extreme racing - including zigzag patterns in the middle of straight roads - who reproduce or rather 'anticipate' the stunts the cars perform in the movie. That's some really long odds of that happening because a city is supposedly full of drifters (which as a poster intelligently pointed out for another "corrected" entry, does not -typically - happen in the city center). Sure you can't theoretically rule out that some crazy dude at one point decided to drift in Shibuya and left some skidmarks, but it wouldn't result in the asphalt looking like that for lengthy scenes.
Correction: Tokyo is full of street racers and tuned cars. Why wouldn't people ever drift around these great drifting corners? Just because the city center is crowed during the day doesn't mean that there were never night races. Another plausibility is that the marks weren't even left by racers. It could have just been someone trying to beat the light, or breaking hard. It's not uncommon for a city as big as Tokyo to have tire marks on the roads.
Nick Bylsma