“Initial D” is the extremely popular comic series written by Shuichi Shigeno which was serialized in Young Magazine (published by Kodansha) from 1995 to July 2013 and sold 56 million copies in total. The anime film trilogy adapted from the comic series follows the intense battles of the Takahashi brothers and Takumi, who all aim to be “the fastest on public roads.”

“Street racers”, based in a mountainous region of Gunma, compete fiercely in driving techniques on winding passes in the mountains.

Takumi Fujiwara helps his family’s tofu shop as a delivery man. He has acquired outstanding driving techniques through driving a Toyota Sprinter Trueno, AE86, to deliver tofu to customers through a mountain pass every day. One day, Takumi, on his way to a customer, effortlessly passes the vehicle of Keisuke Takahashi, the second in a local street racing team, which attracts the attention of street racers although Takumi does not realize it.
Shortly afterward, the members of the “Akagi RedSuns” led by Ryosuke Takahashi, the older brother of Keisuke, gather at Mt. Akina, and challenge the “Akina SpeedStars” led by Koichiro Iketani to a racing match by naming the driver of AE 86 on that day as an opponent. Koichiro had witnessed the AE 86 which passed the vehicle of Keisuke. Knowing that Takumi’s father, Bunta Fujiwara, was previously known as “the fastest street racer on Mt. Akina,” Koichiro asks Takumi to join the match. But, on the day of the match, the person who appears in front of Koichiro and Keisuke is…!?

This new anime film is renowned for the pioneering use of 3D computer graphics in its racing battle scenes, and the high level of real-world reproduction, for example, engine noise from actual running vehicles.