Justin Lin

Justin Lin is a Taiwanese-American film director whose films have grossed $2 billion worldwide. He is best known for his work on Better Luck Tomorrow (2002), The Fast and the Furious: Tokyo Drift (2006), Fast & Furious (2009), Fast Five (2011), Fast & Furious 6 (2013), F9 (2021), and Star Trek Beyond (2016). He is also known for his work on television shows like Community and the second season of True Detective. Lin was born in Taipei, Taiwan, and grew up in a working-class neighborhood in Cypress, California, in Orange County. He attended Cypress High School and University of California, San Diego for two years before transferring to UCLA, where he earned a B.A. in Film & Television and a MFA in Film Directing & Production from the UCLA film school.

Cast

Fast & Furious Greatest Moments: Refuelled

(Self)

Hollywood Chinese

(Self)

50 Years of Star Trek

(Self)

Masters of the Pillow

Better Luck Tomorrow

(Jock (Uncredited))

The Late Show with Stephen Colbert

(Self)

CBS News Sunday Morning

(Self)

Geeking Out

(Self)
Crew

Shopping for Fangs

(Editor)

The Fast and the Furious: Tokyo Drift

(Director)

Finishing the Game: The Search for a New Bruce Lee

(Producer)

Annapolis

(Director)

Fast & Furious

(Director)

Finishing the Game: The Search for a New Bruce Lee

(Director)

Finishing the Game: The Search for a New Bruce Lee

(Writer)

Better Luck Tomorrow

(Director)

Fast Five

(Executive Producer)

Fast Five

(Director)

Fast & Furious 6

(Director)

F9

(Story)

F9

(Screenplay)

Fast X

(Producer)

Shopping for Fangs

(Writer)

Shopping for Fangs

(Director)

Vesuvius

(Executive Producer)

One Punch Man

(Director)

One Punch Man

(Producer)

Star Trek Beyond

(Director)

Help

(Director)

Two for the Money

(Producer)

Two for the Money

(Director)

Two for the Money

(Writer)

Hollywood Adventures

(Story)

Star Trek Beyond

(Producer)

Fast X

(Screenplay)

Last Days

(Director)

Stakehorse

(Producer)

Stakehorse

(Director)

Fast X

(Story)

Last Days

(Producer)

F9

(Director)

Grave Torture

(Executive Producer)

Moonshadow

(Producer)

Better Luck Tomorrow

(Writer)

Better Luck Tomorrow

(Editor)

Better Luck Tomorrow

(Producer)

Space Jam: A New Legacy

(Executive Producer)

F9

(Producer)

Bad Butt

(Executive Producer)

Community

(Director)

True Detective

(Director)

Scorpion

(Director)

Warrior

(Executive Producer)

S.W.A.T.

(Director)

Magnum P.I.

(Director)

Internet Icon

(Executive Producer)

S.W.A.T.

(Executive Producer)

Magnum P.I.

(Executive Producer)

The Endgame

(Executive Producer)

The Endgame

(Director)

Seven Wonders

(Director)