Justin Lin Filmography

Occupation:: Director, Editor, Cinematographer, Producer, Screenwriter
Biography:: Justin Lin's tale will sound remarkably familiar to countless aspiring filmmakers who have paid their dues by maxing out their credit cards and spending sleepless nights starving while wondering if their projects will ever reach the screens. Dead broke and frustrated that his films had not been...Read More

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Fast & Furious

Crew: Director

2009
Hollywood Chinese: The Chinese in American Film

Actors: Turhan Bey, Joan Chen, Tsai Chin, Stephen Gong, James Hong

Synopsis: Filmmaker Arthur Dong's documentary Hollywood Chinese pays homage to the first century of the American film industry, as specifically colored and influenced by the Chinese immigrants to whom Hollywood owes an inestimable debt. Dong touches on everyone from actress Anna May Wong, of Limehouse Blues Read More

5/2/08
Finishing the Game

Crew: Director, Producer, Screenwriter

Actors: McCaleb Burnett, Roger Fan, Kang Sung, Mousa Kraish, Dustin Nguyen

Synopsis: Better Luck Tomorrow and Fast and the Furious: Tokyo Drift director Justin Lin takes a comic look at a longstanding bit of cinema mythology with this mockumentary exploring the making of Bruce Lee's unfinished final film Game of Death. When martial arts star Lee died in 1973 after having shot Read More

10/5/07
The Fast and the Furious: Tokyo Drift

Crew: Director

Actors: Lucas Black, Bow Wow, Nathalie Kelley, Brian Tee, Kang Sung

Synopsis: Better Luck Tomorrow director Justin Lin picks up where John Singleton left off to offer a high-octane look at the world of underground Japanese drift-racing in the latest installment of the super-charged Fast and the Furious film series. A frustrated teen from a broken home, Sean Boswell (Lucas Black Read More

6/16/06
Annapolis

Crew: Director

Actors: James Franco, Tyrese Gibson, Jordana Brewster, Donnie Wahlberg, Vicellous Shannon

Synopsis: A poor but ambitious young man strives to make good in one of the most competitive institutions on Earth in this military drama. Jake Huard (James Franco) is a young man from a small Maryland town who grew up in a blue-collar family with few opportunities. Wanting to make something of himself Read More

1/27/06
Better Luck Tomorrow

Crew: Director, Editor, Producer, Screenwriter

Actors: Parry Shen, Jason Tobin, Kang Sung, Roger Fan, John Cho

Synopsis: A group of unlikely high school students take up crime as an extracurricular activity in this independent drama. Ben (Parry Shen) is a 16-year-old high school student who is the living embodiment of the stereotypical Asian overachiever. Ben obsessively studies even though he gets straight A's Read More

4/11/03
Shopping for Fangs

Crew: Director, Editor, Screenwriter

Actors: Radmar Jao, Jeanne Chin, Clint Jung

Synopsis: Two stories involving Asian-Americans in Southern California's San Gabriel Valley "discovering their dark sides" intersect in this post-modern, anti-consumerism feature from co-directors and UCLA graduates Quentin Lee and Justin Lin. Katherine (Jeanne Chin) is a mild-mannered, unhappy young wife Read More

1997
Flow

Crew: Cinematographer

Synopsis: This free-flowing feature film, marking the directorial debut of video-maker Quentin Lee, episodically chronicles the personal insights and reflections of four young men. In the first, a young director discusses his homosexuality and how it inspires his films to be interesting and different. Read More

1995