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Detective Chris Kenner was orphaned as a child as his father was in the service and was killed and lived in Japan. Now he is on the trail of ruthless Yakuza leader named Yoshido, who helped establish a small Japanese area in Los Angeles and is now running a drug ring disguised as a brewery. However, Kenner must team up with a Japanese-American detective named Johnny Murata, and he also must protect a witness named Minako who would testify against Yoshido. But what Kenner will soon discover that he will be in a lot more than what he bargained for.
For 400 years, Japan has been home to a secret criminal organization dedicated to its own supremacy in the underworld. Ruled by an ancient, arcane code of honor, the deadly Yakuza have been among the most feared members of society. Even today, they are immediately recognizable by the stunningly ornate tattoos that cover their bodies, telling the terrifying story of their stature and career in a dark order that knows no mercy. Now the Yakuza are coming to Los Angeles. But in America, they're going to meet their match. Two cops are on their trail. One's an American raised in Japan. He's got the mind and spirit of a samurai, and the body of a human fighting machine. The other's a Japanese-American raised in California's San Fernando Valley. He's into malls, pizza and MTV. But he can disarm five gunmen with his bare feet. One's a warrior. One's a wise-ass. But together they've got what it takes to remove some tattoos from Little Tokyo. "Showdown in Little Tokyo" stars action favorite Dolph Lundgren as Chris Kenner, a man fighting for his adopted heritage and his family's honor; and Brandon Lee, in his first American film role, as Johnny Murata, a guy whose idea of a good time includes knowing where--and how--to get his kicks. Opposites in attitude, once they get on the streets, they're a perfect odd couple. And what they have in common is their enemy--the Yakuza who are bringing a lethal new drug trade to Los Angeles, coupled with a macabre taste for violence and cruelty.
As someone has wrote "violent, but spiritless" perfectly fits with this film. There is plenty of action, fast pace, some kick-ass fighting moves and standard humor for an buddy cop film. The acting isn't so bad, Dolph and Brandon made some chemistry between them. Director is Mark Lester who did great job on "Commando" couple years before. Cary-Hiroyuki Tagawa holds outstanding performance as the ruthless villain Yoshida. On the other side, short length, poor sound in some action scenes, low visual effects and bad script ruined potential hit for an action film. Overall quality is somewhere between A- or B+ movie.<br/><br/>At the end worth watching if you don't take it seriously.
This is a run-of-the-mill late 80s/early 90s action flick that isn't particularly well done on any level. In fact it's quite awful. I wasn't expecting Oscar material, but the writing is cheese-bad. What's worse though is for an action flick, the fight choreography is surprisingly amateur and poor. I don't know how many different fight scenes I counted - at least 10 where the director catches the complete whiff on camera. This is a quick money maker with no redemptive value, and only a couple of one-liners worth a chuckle by Dolph and Brandon. It's written by Western Asia-philes in an attempt to be both smug and informative, but really is neither. 4/10 for a few one-liners and the beautiful bodies on parade - incidentally Dolph looks juiced out big time.

The Unrated Version runs approx. 20 seconds longer than the original R-Rated Theatrical Version and features some brief moments of nudity and some mildly prolonged scenes of violence. This Unrated Version is not available in the States but in several other countries, e.g. Germany.<br/><br/>The British Version is based on the Unrated Version but censored in three scenes in which a butterfly knife is used. Again, one can find a detailed comparison with pictures over here. a5c7b9f00b

Showdown In Little Tokyo Full Movie 720p Download

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