Taiwan hottest singer Jay Chow's maiden film Initial D, finally premiered across the world on Sunday. 

A red carpet ceremony was held at the Grand Hyatt Hotel in Beijing with cast members, including Edison Chen, Shawn Yue and Jordan Chan, all showing up to do some final promotion for the high-profile film.

The movie title Initial D is a well-known expression to car racing fans and means "No.1 Drift" or "master car racer".

The US$12 million film is based on the Japanese cartoon book of same name and tells stories about the fierce competition between a group of young racers.

(CRI June 21, 2005)