Mike Rainbird

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It's Japanese with subtitles, and is based on a character from the Manga style comics, but is a proper film and not cartoon - is called "Initial-D" (the D is for drifting) and is about the street racing culture in Japan (fictional and not a documentary).

I really enjoyed it, but I still want to know WTF Tofu is? .

MM_RACING

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Mike

Tofu, sometimes also called bean curd, is a food made by coagulating soy milk, and then pressing the resulting curds into blocks. The making of tofu from soy milk is similar to the technique of making cheese from milk. Wheat gluten, or seitan, in its steamed and fried forms, is often mistakenly called "tofu" in Asian or vegetarian dishes

Mike Rainbird

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Cheers Ming - what does it taste like and what is it normally served with?

MM_RACING

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Mike

Taste of soy - Wifey an veg



Initial-D

It’s a story about the fastest street racer of Mt Akina. Takumi, a delivery boy; Ryousuke, an engineer of speed; and Kyouichi, a professional racer: the three of them become duelists of drifts.

For five years, 18-year-old Takumi has been delivering tofu in his father’s obsolescent Toyota AE86 every morning. Not only has he become a good racer, but he has also unwittingly perfected the art of drifting.

He was never an aficionado of hill racing until he is asked by his father to drive his AE86 in a David and Goliath race against Night Kids’ EVO. A glorious but unexpected victory awakens the competitive genes in his blood, while his overnight fame inevitably leads to hellraising races one after another, each one more perilous and exciting than the previous one.

Starring Asia’s hottest heartthrobs, Jay Chou and Edison Chen, Initial D is adapted from one of the most popular eponymous manga and anime series in Japan. This is the first live-action feature based on the series to ever grace the silver screen in the world.


http://hk.initialdthemovie.com/index_en.html

Mike Rainbird

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What he said .

MM_RACING

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Mike

wifey an vegetarian





Mmmmm Tofu

AGAR-COSWORTH

Theres a few Jap films around which are based on simlar stories - pretty cool if you can manage to find them in the shops or online.

Where'd you get the DVD from Mike?

Mike Rainbird

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The other person on this thread sorted it for me .

Boost Junky

Sounds spot on... I want a copy after reading that!!

Mr C

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I have been into drift for a while, at last somebody explained it to me, thank Mike, good post I will be getting this as a stocking filler this xmas

MM_RACING

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Not me

saff_cossie

Tofu is nice. Used to have it with pasta and vegetables for carb loading

MWF

I have just started watching it myself - I find it really interesting. I thought it would be more about action and racing but I was actually happier to find it was of a thinking type show.