If you're into tuner culture, you may know of Sung Kang. Even if you're not so much with the tuners, you've probably seen Kang in the Fast franchise. He played Han starting with Fast And The Furious: Tokyo Drift, and went on to appear in several other films, including miraculously coming back to life for Fast X. In real life, Kang is hardcore into cars. His 1973 Datsun 240Z, named Fugu Z after the poisonous fish, is a work of automotive art. He is still in the entertainment business, though, and the trailer for the movie Drifter has finally dropped. It's written, directed, and stars Kang, and it looks like he's trying to make the ultimate car culture movie. Initial D Vibes, And That's A Great Thing YouTube/IGNThe build-up to this movie has been in the works for years now. In the trailer we see a tuned but battered Toyota AE86 piloted on a race track, guided by a mentor and preparing to enter a professional drift event. It's clearly going to follow the sports movie formula, which is pretty much what the cult classic animated series Initial D did with drifting, but over the course of a longer TV series arc. And this movie is clearly referencing Initial D with the hero car – a now classic and iconic Toyota AE86.All that said, the movie description as published with the YouTube trailer video does sound a bit hokey:"In a forgotten desert town, a solitary race track janitor with a gift for drifting is haunted by his tragic past. Given a single chance to compete at a pro drifting event, he discovers his raw talent is useless without the one thing he's always avoided: connection with others. Under a hardened mentor, he must learn to trust his found family and transform his untamed, lonely art into a dangerous dance of partnership, or be consumed and controlled by the past he's desperate to escape."But we'll reserve judgment, because this movie has serious car-culture connections. Some of the drifting scenes in the movie were filmed during time slots at the Legends Of Drift event in late August 2025 in New Jersey. Most of the scenes in the trailer, however, look like they were shot in the Southern California desert. And it looks suspiciously like the track is at Willow Springs. Judging by the written synopsis, we suspect at least some of the lead character's arc will be learning that there's no "wax on wax off" with drifting.YouTube/IGN It's unlikely Drifter will hit the same level of popularity and mainstream success as the original Fast film, but we don't believe that's the point. It looks like a movie created to give car culture a cool indie vibe, put together by one of America's prominent enthusiasts – who also happens to be an actor in the movie business.If it makes any kind of profit and lives up to the trailer, then it's going to be a win. After all, fifty percent of something is better than a hundred percent of nothing. This looks like the kind of movie that could disappoint at the box office, given the current state of the movie industry, but it could also be a surprise hit.Beyond the financials, though, it has all the ingredients of a successful cult classic. It's clearly a passion project for Kang; he's got a great screen presence, he's a genuine enthusiast deep in car culture, and he's beloved to this day by Fast And Furious franchise fans.