{"id":34877,"date":"2026-07-29T06:10:27","date_gmt":"2026-07-29T10:10:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cinemadailyus.com\/?p=34877"},"modified":"2026-07-29T06:24:41","modified_gmt":"2026-07-29T10:24:41","slug":"the-real-story-behind-the-film-initial-d-director-andrew-lau-tells-all","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cinemadailyus.com\/?p=34877","title":{"rendered":"The Real Story Behind the Film, “Initial D” Director Andrew Lau Tells All"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Nobuhiro Hosoki<\/strong> grew up watching American films since he was a kid; he decided to go to the United States thanks to seeing the artistry of Stanley Kubrick’s “A Clockwork Orange.\u201d After graduating from film school, he worked as an assistant director on TV Tokyo\u2019s program called “Morning Satellite” at the New York branch office but he didn\u2019t give up on his interest in cinema. He became a film reporter for via Yahoo Japan\u00a0\u00a0News<\/span><\/a>. In that role, he writes\u00a0\u00a0news<\/span><\/a>\u00a0articles, picks out headliners for Yahoo News, as well as interviewing Hollywood film directors, actors, and producers working in the domestic circuit in the USA. He also does production interviews for Japanese distributors of American films and for in-theater on-sale programs. He is now the editor-in-chief of Cinemadailyus.com while continuing his work for Japan.<\/p>\n<\/ins>\n

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Initial D<\/strong> : As \u201cfamily\u201d was becoming the world\u2019s loudest car-movie philosophy, Hong Kong gave us a different kind of miracle: a tofu kid, perilous roads, and one battered immortal Toyota AE86. It\u2019s 2005, and Andrew Lau and Alan Mak, fresh off Infernal Affairs, turn Shuichi Shigeno\u2019s blockbuster racing manga into pure motorhead bliss, with pop superstar Jay Chou making his screen debut as a half-asleep teenager who has unknowingly become a drift-racing freak through years of morning runs for his father\u2019s tofu shop. Once the local speed demons discover the prodigy, every road becomes a dueling ground. Newly restored in 4K for its 20th anniversary, Initial D remains the real deal east of Vin Diesel: fast, foolish and beautiful.<\/p>\n<\/ins>\n

DIRECTOR<\/strong> : Andrew Lau and Alan Mak<\/p>\n

YEAR<\/strong> : 2005<\/p>\n

COUNTRY<\/strong> : Hong Kong<\/p>\n

RUNTIME<\/strong> : 109 minutes<\/p>\n

LANGUAGE<\/strong> : Cantonese with English subtitles<\/p>\n

ORIGINAL TITLE<\/strong> : \u982d\u6587\u5b57D<\/p>\n

VENUES<\/strong> : Walter Reade Theater<\/p>\n

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