I just finished watching Initial D live-action movie, which is an adaptation of the manga/anime series of the same name. The story revolves around Takumi, a high school student who delivers tofu for his father, and works at the neighborhood gas station. Having been a long time reader of the series, it was fun to see the comic come to life. There's something a bit odd about watching Chinese actors play Japanese charatcters, and some of the characters are clearly lip-sync'ed (from whatever language the actor happened to be speaking).
The road racing segments are fun to watch, and features lots of racing and drifting down Mt. Akina (it is Initial D, after all).
Since the film is basically compressing 12 volumes of Initial D, characters are cut/changed, and story events are combined or changed in order to create an adaptation that makes sense.
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