The Fast and the Furious: Tokyo Drift (2006)

Most people think so. 82% of audiences gave it a thumbs up, by Google's archived audience score. Critics scored it lower at 42%, but audiences disagreed.

In order to avoid a jail sentence, Sean Boswell heads to Tokyo to live with his military father. In a low-rent section of the city, Sean gets caught up in the underground world of drift racing Wikipedia ↗

The Fast and the Furious: Tokyo Drift is a 2006 American action film directed by Justin Lin, the third installment in the franchise. Lucas Black stars as Sean Boswell, a troubled American teenager sent to live with his father in Tokyo after multiple arrests for illegal street racing. In Japan, Sean is introduced to the world of drift racing — a disciplined, technical motorsport style where cars slide sideways through curves at high speed — and becomes entangled with the local drift king DK and the yakuza.

Justin Lin, who would go on to direct four more entries in the franchise, brought his indie filmmaking sensibility and genuine love of car culture, and the drift racing sequences in parking garages and mountain roads were spectacular. The film earned $158 million worldwide on a $85 million budget, the franchise's lowest gross, but Justin Lin's creative vision would prove essential to revitalizing the series.