I’ve covered machete orders for Star Wars, X-Men, and MCU movies. Now it’s time for Fast & Furious. After watching Tokyo Drift last night and looking up some of the characters, I realised that Han features in later movies and wondered where the film featured in the F&F timeline, given it was the third movie released.
Radio Times covered the machete order timeline, placing Tokyo Drift somewhere in the middle:
Although it was the third Fast film to be released in cinemas, Tokyo Drift is actually set between Fast & Furious 6 and Furious 7. Swerving away from the story of Brian and Dom, the film follows a completely new set of characters led by Sean Boswell (Lucas Black), a student forced to move to Japan to avoid jail time.
Here’s the list (as of 2025):
- The Fast and the Furious (2001)
- 2 Fast 2 Furious (2003)
- Fast & Furious (2009)
- Fast Five (2011)
- Fast & Furious 6 (2013)
- The Fast and the Furious: Tokyo Drift (2006)
- Furious 7 (2015)
- The Fate of the Furious (2017)
- Fast & Furious Presents: Hobbs & Shaw (2019)
- F9 (2021)
- Fast X (2023)
We know that the next movie will be the last, with Leterrier announcing that the film would be delayed until 2026. I have only seen Tokyo Drift so I’m looking forward to following this order in the future.