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The following section is an excerpt from Wikipedia's The Fast and the Furious: Tokyo Drift page on 17 September 2018, text available via the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported License.
The Fast and the Furious: Tokyo Drift (alternatively known as Fast & Furious 3 or Tokyo Drift) is a 2006 German-American action film directed by Justin Lin, produced by Neal H. Moritz, and written by Chris Morgan. It is a spin-off to The Fast and the Furious and its follow-up, 2 Fast 2 Furious. The film features a new cast of characters and a different setting (Tokyo, Japan) from the other two films. It is the third installment in The Fast and the Furious franchise and stars Lucas Black, Bow Wow and Nathalie Kelly. The film follows car enthusiast Sean Boswell, who is sent to live in Tokyo with his father, before finding solace viewing and competing in the drifting community within the city.
Paul Walker is notably absent from the film, making it the only Fast & Furious film in his lifetime where he does not appear. In addition, this film does not retain any members from the original cast in leading roles although Vin Diesel does appear in the ending scene. The film was shot mainly on location in Tokyo, as well as in Los Angeles. The film released on June 16, 2006 in the United States. It grossed over $158 million from an $85 million budget, making it the lowest grossing film in the franchise. The film was followed by Fast & Furious in 2009.
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