Initial D
New York Asian Film Festival 2026
July 10 - 23
A tofu-maker’s kid, a battered Toyota AE86, and mountain roads built for trouble. From the directors of Infernal Affairs, the drift-racing cult favorite returns in 20th-anniversary 4K.
Screening + Q&A
with Andrew Lau
Sunday, July 12
In Conversation with Andrew Lau
This masterclass takes place at Film at Lincoln Center’s Elinor Bunin Munroe Film Center Amphitheater.
Saturday, July 11
Showtimes
Sun, July 12
Screening + Q&A
with Andrew Lau
Sunday, July 12
In Conversation with Andrew Lau
This masterclass takes place at Film at Lincoln Center’s Elinor Bunin Munroe Film Center Amphitheater.
Saturday, July 11
As “family” was becoming the world’s loudest car-movie philosophy, Hong Kong gave us a different kind of miracle: a tofu kid, perilous roads, and one battered immortal Toyota AE86. It’s 2005, and Andrew Lau and Alan Mak, fresh off Infernal Affairs, turn Shuichi Shigeno’s blockbuster racing manga into pure motorhead bliss, with pop superstar Jay Chou making his screen debut as a half-asleep teenager who has unknowingly become a drift-racing freak through years of morning runs for his father’s tofu shop. Once the local speed demons discover the prodigy, every road becomes a dueling ground. Newly restored in 4K for its 20th anniversary, Initial D remains the real deal east of Vin Diesel: fast, foolish and beautiful.
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