S4E12 - Better Luck Tomorrow

Jul 31, 2024

It’s time to go back to a time before. Before Tokyo and Brazil; before highway tanks and endless runways. Exclusively for members of Super Chapter Select, Max and Logan visit Justin’s Lin’s second film Better Luck Tomorrow—aka the origin of Family Favorite Han. How does teen angst translate to the Fast Saga?

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Better Luck Tomorrow

• Release Date - April 11, 2003 (Sundance January 12, 2002)
• Director - Justin Lin
• Producers - Justin Lin, Julie Asato, Ernesto Foronda, and MC Hammer
• Writers - Ernesto Foronda, Justin Lin, and Fabian Marquez
• Actors - Parry Shen, Jason Tobin, Sung Kang, Roger Fan, John Cho, and Karin Anna Cheung
• Composer - Michael Gonzales and Tobin Mori
• Budget / Profit - $250,000 / $3.8million

Rotten Tomatoes - 81% critic and 79% viewers

Links

• Better Luck Tomorrow Wikipedia
• Better Luck Tomorrow Trailer
• The Oral History of Better Luck Tomorrow
• 2017 C3 Conference: Better Luck Tomorrow: A Retrospective
• Cowboy Bebop Netflix Intro
  • Whenever you can link to Tank!, do it.
• Better Luck Tomorrow Cars

This episode was originally recorded on February 10, 2023.

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