New Initial D the Movie Legend 2 Film's Teaser Streamed

posted on by Sarah Nelkin
Cast, staff return for 2nd film in reboot film series

Avex began streaming a teaser trailer on Friday for Shin Gekijōban Initial D Legend 2 -Tōsō- (New Initial D the Movie Legend 2: Racer), the second film in the new Initial D film trilogy. The trailer features the theme song "The Brave (D Version)" by BACKDRAFT SMITHS.

Text: The stage changes to the "mountain pass."
Narrator: The second film. The legend doesn't end. A new battle begins.
Text: Feel the impact
Text: That makes all your blood
Text: Come to a boil
Narrator: Shin Gekijōban Initial D Legend 2 -Tōsō-

The film will premiere in Japanese theaters on May 23.

The cast from the first film will return, with Mamoru Miyano as Takumi Fujiwara, Yūichi Nakamura as Keisuke Takahashi, Minoru Shiraishi as Itsuki Takeuchi, Maaya Uchida as Natsuki Mogi, Hiroaki Hirata as Bunta Fujiwara, Hiroshi Tsuchida as Kōichirō Iketani, and Junichi Suwabe as Takeshi Nakazato. Sanzigen Animation Studio and Liden Films will animate the film, and Shochiku will distribute it.

The first film in the new film trilogy, New Initial D the Movie Legend 1: Awakening (Shin Gekijō-ban Initial D Legend 1 -Kakusei-), opened in Japan in August, and also premiered in Singapore on December 4. The film trilogy retells the beginning of the story from Shuuichi Shigeno's original car-racing manga. High school student Takumi Fujiwara works as a gas station attendant during the day and a delivery boy for his father's tofu shop during late nights. Little does he know that his precise driving skills and his father's modified Toyota Sprinter AE86 Trueno make him the best amateur road racer on Mt. Akina's highway. Because of this, racing groups from all over the Gunma prefecture issue challenges to Takumi to see if he really has what it takes to be a road legend.

Shigeno's original manga follows Takumi Fujiwara, a high school boy with a natural talent for driving, in his racing pursuits on the public highways. The manga debuted in Kodansha's Young Magazine in 1995, and Shigeno ended the manga last July. It has over 48 million copies in circulation.


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