Justin Lin

Justin Lin is the guy who basically saved Fast & Furious and turned it into one of the biggest franchises on the planet — and I think he deserves way more credit than he typically gets. Born in Taipei and trained at UCLA, he came up making scrappy indie films like Better Luck Tomorrow before Universal handed him the keys to a street-racing series that was running out of gas. What he did with Tokyo Drift, then Fast Five, then Fast & Furious 6 was genuinely remarkable: he scaled the whole thing into globe-trotting action spectacle without losing its found-family heart. Over $3 billion at the box office speaks for itself. As one of the few Asian-American directors to consistently helm massive Hollywood blockbusters, he quietly kicked a door open for others.

Name (English)

Justin Lin

Name (Japanese)

ジャスティン・リン

Reading

じゃすてぃん・りん

Born

October 11, 1971 (age 54)

Zodiac / Chinese zodiac

Libra / Boar

Origin

Taipei, Taiwan

Occupation

film director / screenwriter / film producer / director

High school

Cypress High School

University

University of California, Los Angeles

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• Wikipedia (English)https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Justin%20Lin
• Wikipedia (Japanese)https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E3%82%B8%E3%83%A3%E3%82%B9%E3%83%86%E3%82%A3%E3%83%B3%E3%83%BB%E3%83%AA%E3%83%B3
• Wikidatahttps://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q551876

Tags

• film director
• screenwriter
• film producer

Last updated

2026-06-02

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