Every Fast & Furious Movie, Ranked

The third Fast and Furious film suffered, yet again, from the lack of original cast members, although Vin Diesel made a half-hearted cameo toward the end of the 2006 film. Instead, it presented teenager Sean (Lucas Black), who was sent to stay with his dad in Japan in order to avoid juvie. Bow Wow introduced him to drift racing in Tokyo, and the yakuza somehow got involved. Although Tokyo Drift made a respectable $158 million at the box office and cleared its estimated $85 million budget handily, it was far less profitable than its two predecessors.

“The director also makes a nod to Japan's rich history of genre filmmaking by casting action legend J. J. Sonny Chiba as a cigar-smoking yakuza. Chiba's presence momentarily classes up a passable youths-ploitation flick into a transcendent piece of movie trash.” —Jason Anderson, The Globe and Mail