Reviewed for okayplayer.comExpatriate Americans… street racing… in Tokyo… against the Yakuza… with a soundtrack combining hip-hop, dancehall, metal, and reggaeton in English, Spanish, and Japanese. Oh, the Globalism! Cosmopolitanism! Hybridity! Liminality! Syncretism! Intertextuality! (and an extra French !) Rejoice, people of Japan! After years of being Othered, the soundtrack to The Fast and Furious 3: Tokyo Drift has demonstrated that you are now One with Us, free to mingle, consume, and photogenically rebel under the Pacific-rimming schlock- carnival otherwise known as the American action-film-and- spin-off-soundtrack industry. (More...)
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