Embarrassed from the race, Sean realizes he has to. Takashi wins with his Nissan 350Z, and Han's car is destroyed by Sean's inexperience with drift racing, so Han tells Sean that he is not to leave Tokyo and must work for him to repay the car. Sean is seen by Takashi talking to Neela, Takashi's girlfriend, and when Takashi tells him to back down, Sean challenges him to a race using Han's car, a Nissan Silvia. Sean soon runs into Takashi, the 'Drift King' of Tokyo, and his close friend Han, who was born and raised in America.

After Shawn notices several automobile related wares Twinkie has, Twinkie introduces Sean to the world of drift racing by bringing him to a drift car park where a race party is going on. After class at lunch, Sean meets Twinkie, a fellow American, who hustles pre-owned goods to their Japanese classmates. Sean awakes the next morning realizing he has been enrolled into a private school in Tokyo. Upon reaching Tokyo, Sean's father warns him to not to participate in any races or he will be sent back to the United States to prison. The girlfriend is furious with both and the incident almost lands Sean in jail, and his mother, deciding not to deal with moving again, sends him to Tokyo to live with his father, a U.S. Both end up at the police station, injured.

The race eventually turns awful as Sean smashes through houses that are currently under construction and the quarterback ends up crashing his car. Fortunately, the two decide to duel on who gets the girlfriend, Cindy with the quarterback driving a Dodge Viper and Sean in his 1971 Monte Carlo. Upon damage of his car, Sean gets out and pulls out a wrench, threatening to fight. One day, Sean ends up flirting with the girlfriend of the school quarterback, resulting in a baseball being thrown into Sean's rear window just as Sean attempts to avoid confrontation after insulting him. His mono-parental mother has had to relocate to different cities with him every time his problems at school or with the local authorities escalated enough. Sean Boswell, a young man with a talent for auto mechanics, has led a life of getting into trouble.

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