Real Life Initial D - DRIFTING scene in Gunma Japan

I currently live and work in Gunma Prefecture, Japan. Gunma is the setting of the world famous anime Initial D which is about the motorsport drifting and touge racing. Growing up, I was a big fan of anime and tuner culture and so it had always been a dream of mine to experience the subculture of Drifting first hand.

This past month, I had the amazing opportunity to check out the real live drifting scene in Gunma. Myself and a couple friends went to Akagi Mountain which is the real life counterpart of several of the tracks in the Initial D anime, manga and games. There we discovered that the drifting scene is alive and well. It was literally. real. live. initial D.

One of the people I met that night is famous for being the best driver in Gunma. He is a really cool and soft spoken Japanese guy who is a monster behind the wheel of his insane S15 Nissan Silvia. He took me on a couple runs up and down the touge (mountain pass) and I had no idea it was even possible to drive a car that fast on the mountain, much less going sideways into and out of a corner.

It was awesome.I can`t wait to go again and hopefully I`ll be able to get some more and better video. Hope you guys enjoy watching!

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• Drifting (motorsport)
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• s14
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[paranoiaxiii]

FAIL @ 3:10.

[powerbird101]

Mt. Akina FTW this is awesome...

[EatDeeznuts1]

and a mx5 roadster

[EatDeeznuts1]

Cars i spotted.

lexus sc300

nissan s13,s14,s15

honda s2000.

[ijustateyourrdog]

WHAT CAMERA YOU USING ? ^.^

[aleed89]

hope i can do this when i move back there... last time i lived there I had a lot of troube trying to find this sort of activity

[sato1008ify]

it's great!

[malodorant]

Thanks for sharing man.. this is why the interweb is awesome.

[MrPricehenry]

Anyone got a track listing in this video?!?!

[SpartanG6]

Love your videos man. I'm getting a miata as a fun car as soon as funds allow :)