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\u201cFast & Furious<\/strong>\u201d star Sung Kang revealed in a recent interview with South China Morning post that he\u2019s currently working on the live-action film adaptation of a Japanese manga, Initial D, based on the classic street racing manga by Shuichi Shigeno. Kang will helm the Initial D movie, which he described as a \u201cbig-budget\u201d project.<\/p>\n

Initial D was written and illustrated by Shigeno. It was published in Kodansha\u2019s Weekly Young Magazine from 1995 to 2013. The story takes place in the world of Japan\u2019s illegal street racing during the late 1990s. It centers around 18-year-old Takumi Fujiwara, a tofu delivery driver who discovers his extraordinary talent in car racing by driving Toyota AE86.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

The manga was initially spawned into a six-part anime series which lasted for 81 episodes, airing from 1998-2014. It also received several anime movie spin-offs, a live-action film in 2005 which starred Taiwanese singer Jay Chou, Japanese actress Anne Suzuki, and Hong Kong actor Edison Chen.<\/p>\n

In his interview, \u201cIt\u2019s about cars and drifting and cool things like that,\u201d Kang said. \u201cAlmost a “Rocky<\/strong>” or “Karate Kid<\/strong>.” A fun, big-budget movie that expresses my love affair for cars.\u201d<\/p>\n

Besides the “Initial D<\/strong>” movie, Kang is also working on a biographical drama based on his childhood experience living in Georgia with a biracial family. \u201cI want to get that out in the world,\u201d he said. \u201cIt\u2019s about my father and mother. There\u2019s a fire under that one because I want to honor my father, who\u2019s not too healthy, before it\u2019s too late.\u201d<\/p>\n

He hasn’t yet provided a timeline for when this movie will get made. For now, he’s promoting his directorial debut, the horror\/comedy “Shaky Shivers<\/i><\/strong>,” while also developing another, autobiographical film about growing up in an interracial household in Georgia.<\/p>\n

Check out more of Nobuhiro’s articles.\u00a0<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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