has confirmed that he's currently developing the live-action film adaptation of Initial D, based on the classic street racing manga by Shuichi Shigeno. Kang will direct the Initial D movie, which he described as a “big-budget” project. “It's about cars and drifting and cool things like that,” Kang said.
A new film based on the famous Japanese comic Initial D is to be directed by Fast & Furious actor Sung Kang, according to a recent interview with newspaper the South China Morning Post.
Following the release of Initial D's sequel anime, MF Ghost, the franchise is set to have a live-action movie directed by Fast & Furious Star Sung Kang. This will be the second live-action Initial D movie to be released, with the first one being released back in 2005 for the Asian markets.
Takumi Fujiwara (藤原 拓海 "Fujiwara Takumi") is a former street racer and retired rally championship driver with a title and several records held, and currently Kanata Katagiri's and Emma Greene's mentor. He is mentioned in several chapters and is briefly shown in Chapter 25.
This is the first time Takumi loses in a battle. Though not an official battle, as interpreted by Sudo Kyoichi himself as he considers it as a lesson for Takumi to understand his car is not suitable for racing, this still at least to Takumi was considered as a loss.
In the third round, it was revealed that he was married to a professional golf-player. In chapter 231, that golf player was Mika Uehara who appeared with a new full name "Mika Fujiwara" confirming that she's Takumi's wife.
His mother has not shown up throughout the series, and Bunta has never made any mention of his mother. For his part, Takumi has never questioned why, either. It's either his mother is dead or divorced from his father.
Kanata is the student of the legendary downhill specialist Takumi Fujiwara who at the time of the MF Ghost storyline was a legendary rallyist that became an instructor at RDRS. Kanata's driving style being reminiscent of that of his mentor's.
Drifting as a sport earned worldwide appeal with Tokyo Drift, which includes elements inspired by the Initial D manga, anime series and movies. Kang's role in Tokyo Drift revived his love for cars so much that he restored a 1973 Datsun 240Z.
The acclaimed manga TV series Initial D, which ran throughout the 1990s tells the story of a Japanese delivery driver who serves up Tofu in the day, and races across mountain passes by night, is said to be loosely based on Keiichi Tsuchiya's life.
The expedition of Project D ends spectacularly with a race between Takumi Fujiwara and Shinji Inui of Team Sidewinder, two evenly matched drivers, where Takumi blows his engine again, but steps on the clutch and wins the race by rolling backwards over the finish line.
It was adapted into an eleven part anime series, beginning with Initial D (commonly known as First Stage) in 1998 and ending with Initial D Final Stage in 2014. The series also spawned several video games, including a series of arcade games by SEGA.
Initial D Battle Stage is the fifth installment of the anime adaptation of the Initial D series. It features completely reanimated versions of all the major battles from First Stage, as well as the battles from Second Stage and Third Stage with minimal character dialogue.
Takumi is informed about Natsuki's relationship with the man and, feeling betrayed, decides to stop seeing her, leaving her heartbroken. After some time, she decides she doesn't want to end high school on bad terms with him, and attempts to become friends once more.
Mako later starts dating Asami Sato, the daughter of wealthy industrialist and Fire Ferrets sponsor Hiroshi Sato. Following the Equalists' attack on the Pro-Bending arena, Mako and Bolin moved in with Asami.
Mika and Takumi's marriage was first announced by Wataru Akiyama during an MFG livestream. However, he didn't mention her name, only stating that Takumi got married on a professional golfer from Saitama.
Natsuki's Papa (なつきのパパ Natsuki no Papa), known simply as "Papa" is the father of Shiraishi, and the ex-sugar daddy of Natsuki Mogi. His full face is never shown, often being obscured or shadowed.
He is still Takumi's best friend and is married. He supports Sena, the new hero of Gunma Prefecture, and Kanata, Takumi's student. Itsuki used to be a member of street racing team called "Akina SpeedStars" and drove an AE85 Toyota Corolla Levin in his youth.
Throughout the anime there are a few scenes of Bunta racing solo, and as the other answer stated, there is one scene where Bunta "races" Takumi after getting his WRX, though it wasn't a proper race (more of an impromptu battle), and Takumi didn't know it was Bunta.
Kyoichi Sudō, the Emperor's team leader tries to knock some sense into Seiji at the beginning of the competition. Given that Kyoichi is the first racer to defeat Takumi in the Second Stage, his beating Takumi at every level at the behest of his Evo IV is a thrill to watch.
