Fast & Furious (also known as The Fast and the Furious 4) is a 2009 American street racing action film directed by Justin Lin. It is the fourth installment in the Fast and the Furious film series and the third chronologically. The plot connects with the original film of the series from which Vin Diesel, Paul Walker, Michelle Rodriguez, and Jordana Brewster reprise their roles. The film was directed by Justin Lin, who also directed the third and fifth installments of the series, The Fast and the Furious: Tokyo Drift and Fast Five. It is also the first film in the series to give more emphasis to American built muscle cars than imported cars. Five years after the events of The Fast and the Furious, Dominic Toretto (Vin Diesel) and his new crew: Leticia "Letty" Ortiz (Michelle Rodriguez), Tego "Teddy" (Tego Calderón), Omar Santos (Don Omar), Cara Mirtha (Mirtha Michelle) and Han Seoul-Oh (Sung Kang) (his old crew having disbanded from the first movie: Leon, Jesse (killed by Johnny Tran), and Vince (got wounded and escaped in South America, now in Rio) are hijacking the fuel tankers of a road train in the Dominican Republic.