Tokyo Mater

:Not to be confused with the book or the Cars: Race-O-Rama event.
Tokyo Mater is the fourth episode of the Cars Toons series. The short was shown in theaters in the US before the Disney animated film Bolt on November 21, 2008. The short is the first Disney-Pixar production presented in Disney Digital 3-D. It is also the first Pixar short to be shown before a non-Pixar-produced Disney animated feature film.
==Story==
At Flo's V8 Café, Sheriff pulls up when three of the Delinquent Road Hazards, Boost, DJ, and Wingo drift past at a fast speed. As Sheriff angrily chases after them, Mater says that he used to be an import, and then tells Lightning McQueen what happened.
One day, Mater was driving along the road when he spotted a car with a Japanese accent sitting by the side of the road. His name was Ito-San. He asks Mater to tow him somewhere far away and Mater ends up taking him to Tokyo. As Mater drops him off, he notices two modified cars resembling Wingo and DJ. (those were Komodo and Yokoza respectively) As he follows a group of ladies, with such a tiny tap he accidentally bumps into a gang leader resembling Boost. His name is Kabuto, and he challenges him to a drift race at midnight. After extreme modifications, Mater has come to the starting line. Ito-San tells them that they must race to the top of Tokyo Tower and the winner will become king of all drifters. and then Mater was wondering what happens to the loser. Kabuto tells Mater that the loser will be stripped of all modifications and become stock, and all the Japanese cars are shocked to hear that, and then the race then starts. After Kabuto mocks him saying that he can't drift and he's a loser, Mater replies to Kabuto I'll show you and then Mater ends up sliding through the lobby of a building where Mike and Sulley make a cameo. Mater got out of the lobby, Mater was driving in the wrong way and the cars almost hit Mater, and then Mater was chased by a Police car. After he loses Kabuto, and then Mater goes inside the House of Donuts, which makes the Police car (Patokaa) want to make donut rings, Mater eventually catches up with Kabuto, but is slowed down by his posse of ninjas.
Lightning McQueen asks Mater what did he do and Mater tells him that "he was there, too".
Back in Tokyo, Lightning McQueen is now a dragon power expert (nicknamed Lightning Dragon McQueen) who simultaneously defeats the ninjas with "Spinning Dragon Attack". After he successfully defeats them and laughs, Mater notices that Kabuto is almost to the tower. Lightning McQueen takes Mater through a shortcut through a building site where Mater learns how to drift as they both drift on an oily road. After Mater notices that the road is out, he can't stop. Lightning McQueen uses "Lightning Dragon Fire Ball" to release fire from his exhaust as he shunts Mater into a pipe that blasts him ahead of Kabuto. Mater then drives backward as Kabuto roars in wrath. As they race into Tokyo Tower, Kabuto says that he cannot be defeated until he furiously knocks Mater off the tower, but Mater uses his tow hook for a quick recovery to spring him to the top and instantly wins the race. As Kabuto is laughed at by his Ninjas after the loss of the drift race against Mater, and so are other cars who are still laughing at Kabuto after he is completely stripped of modifications. Then, Mater celebrates his victory and Lightning McQueen joins the celebration too, and then Mater says, "That's how I become Tow-ke-yo Mater, King of All the Drifters."
Back in Radiator Springs, Lightning McQueen is a little annoyed with Mater, but then Mater appears with wooden boxes resembling his drifter form. Then, Guido slams a box down on Mater's hood. Mater then drives away with Lightning McQueen and the Radiator Springs townies looking on, shocked.
==Characters==
*Mater
*Lightning McQueen (regular and Lightning Dragon McQueen)
*Sheriff
*Luigi (cameo)
*Guido
*Fillmore (cameo)
*Sarge (cameo)
*Ramone (cameo)
*Flo (cameo)
*Mia and Tia
*Boost
*DJ (cameo)
*Wingo
*Kabuto
*Yokoza
*Suki
*Ichigo
*Harumi
*Chisaki	
*Ito-San
*Kabuto Ninjas
*Van-San
*Patokaa
*Komodo
*Cho
*Kaa Reesu
*Kyandee
*Manji
*Tansou
*Bye Bye Kar
*Geishas
*Tabinu
*Yojimbo
*Mike (cameo)
*Sulley (cameo)
*Chuki (cameo)
*Ichiban, Niban and Sanban
*Teki and Paki
==Cast==
*Larry the Cable Guy as Mater
*Keith Ferguson as Lightning McQueen
*Michael Wallis as Sheriff
*Mach Tony Kobayashi as Kabuto
*Robert Ito as Ito-San
*Guido Quaroni as Guido
*Elissa Knight as Mia and Tia
===Additional voices===
*Peter Sohn
*Bob Peterson
*Sonoko Konishi as Japanese Car
*Bob Scott 
*Henry Lee as Patokaa
*Mickie McGowan as Female Car
*Jess Harnell 
*Jan Rabson
*Danny Mann
*Julia Kato
*Karen Huie
*Lori Alan
*Jack Angel
*Carol Bach-Y-Rita
*Torbin Xan Bullock
*George Carlin as Fillmore (archive audio)
*Josh Cooley
*John Cygan
*Paul Eiding
*Angus MacLane
*Laraine Newman
*Teddy Newton
*Bret Parker
*Steve Purcell
*Jim Ward
==Goofs==
*Before Mater gets modified to enter Kabuto's race, Mia and Tia's tires and spoilers are white. But after Mater gets modified, their tires and spoilers are green.
*Mike and Sulley were meant to look at Mater drifting, but they looked at where Mater was going to drift before he got to that location.
*Boost turns orange after Sheriff catches them.
==Gallery==
:For this subject's image gallery, see Tokyo Mater/Gallery.
==References to other media==
*Cars: Before Kabuto challenges Mater, a large screen has a news report, showing Chuki reporting something about Kabuto, in the same shot as she did in the film when Lightning McQueen went missing, only Kabuto is in Lightning McQueen's place, despite that Kabuto was in the city and challenging Mater to the drift race. Additionally, several brands that sponsored Piston Cup teams in Cars appear in Tokyo Mater in advertisements. These include RPM, N20 Cola, Easy Idle, Vitoline, Nitroade, Mood Springs, Gasprin, No Stall, and Gask-its. A Dinoco building can also be seen.
==References in later media==
*Cars: Race-O-Rama: A minigame based around this short is included, in which Mater and Kabuto race to the top of Tokyo Tower. Lightning McQueen appears in his "Dragon" attire as the playable car for the second player in multiplayer mode, in Kabuto's place.
*Cars Toons: Mater's Tall Tales: The Video Game: There are many elements, including minigames, based around this short.
*Cars 2: Tokyo is seen again, along with many of the characters and locations that were first seen in the short. Kabuto is seen driving next to Lightning McQueen and Mater during the scenery montage, and he is later seen on a bridge at the World Grand Prix welcome party, along with Yokoza, Suki, Harumi, Ichigo, and Chisaki.
*Cars: Fast as Lightning: One of Mater's paint jobs is based on the one he wears during his race with Kabuto. The 1.3.0 update adds decorations from Tokyo, along with Yokoza and Komodo as playable characters.
==Names in other languages==
*Hungarian: Tokió Matu-szan
*Latin American Spanish: Karate Mate
*Polish: Japoński Złomek
==Trivia==
*It is unknown why couldn't they car-ify the title as "Towkyo Mater", since Towkyo was a trademark in Cars 2. This would be a better fitting pun for Mater's full name "Tow Mater".
*This is the only Cars Toons episode where Mater didn't prove that his story was real. However, when Guido had put the wooden crates on Mater, he had the same shape as his modifications in his story.
*The stereotypical American cop loves donuts as food, and the donut is a drifting move in which to spin in a circle, and the cop cars are seen executing this move.
*The light on the police car that chases Mater says "Tokyo Metropolitan Police Department" in Japanese (警視庁).
*The police car chasing Mater says the same thing as Sheriff at the beginning of the short ("Get back here, you import punk!").
*This is the first Mater's Tall Tales in which Lightning McQueen doesn't get in trouble or hurt. Heavy Metal Mater is the second.
*The graphics and plot seem to be based on Tokyo Street Racing movies, along with The Fast and Furious: Tokyo Drift.
*Even though there are Japanese songs, the last song is Korean. However, the DVD subtitles show the song being Japanese.
*Most tuners in Japan have larger pupils in their eyes, which is a poke at Japanese anime character styling.
*Buy N Large from WALL•E appears as the company selling "Lugnut in a Cup".
*When Mater whizzes past the cars, one of them possibly did the Wilhelm scream sound effect.
*Tokyo Mater has the word "tomato" written on his doors in Japanese (トマト).
*Boost, Wingo, and DJ are voiced by different actors cast by Disney as opposed to Jonas Riviera, Adrian Ochoa, and E.J. Holowicki.
*The Hungarian translation Tokió Matu-szan references the term "san" as it is used in Japan.
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pl:Japoński Złomek
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