11. Actual Drifter Keiichi Tsuchiya Also Cameos
Keiichi Tsuchiya was also a consultant on Tokyo Drift, serving too as as a stunt coordinator and stuntman for the film. Know as the Drift King, Tsuchiya was instrumental in introducing the practice into non-drifting racing events and in popularising drifting as a motorsport, as well as taking part in a bunch of those mountain races that appear throughout the film. His fingerprints are all over Tokyo Drift, basically, and he even makes an appearance himself. Well, first of all his signature car he drove for most of his professional career a AE86 Sprinter Trueno (nicknamed The Little Hachi that could) is briefly spied during the movies garage race scene, and the man himself pops up during one of the many montages of the young Sean Boswell trying to get to grips with drifting. As he messes up time and again, leaving tire tracks and plumes of smoke across the concrete, Tsuchiya is the unimpressed fisherman sat watching the whole debacle with his make, before wrly observing: You call that drifting? The line about betting on the '72 Skyline and '86 Corolla are references to Tsuchiya's racing career, too, with Skyline being his first drift car and the Corolla remaining one of his favourites.
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