Showdown in Little Tokyo
One's a warrior. One's a wise guy. They're two L.A. cops going after a gang of drug lords. Feet first.
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Country
Production
Budget
$7 500 000
Box office
$2 275 557
Director
Actors
Dolph Lundgren, Brandon Lee, Cary-Hiroyuki Tagawa, Tia Carrere, Toshishiro Obata, Philip Tan, Rodney Kageyama, Ernie Lively, Renee Griffin, Reid Asato
All actors and roles (10)
All actors and roles (10)
Scenario
Stephen Glantz, Caliope Brattlestreet
Producer
Mark L. Lester, Martin E. Caan
Camera operator
Composer
David Michael Frank
Artist
Craig Stearns
Audition
Cathy Henderson, Michelle Guillermin
Editing
Short description
An American with a Japanese upbringing, Chris Kenner is a police officer assigned to the Little Tokyo section of Los Angeles. Kenner is partnered with Johnny Murata, a Japanese-American who isn't in touch with his roots. Despite their differences, both men excel at martial arts, and utilize their formidable skills when they go up against Yoshida, a vicious yakuza drug dealer with ties to Kenner's past.
What's left behind the scenes
- The original script consisted of 104 pages and included scenes later removed by the producers (for example, a scene where Kenner and Murata, after a fight in the sauna, pursue one of the Yakuza, ending up in a shopping mall). During filming, the script was decided to be shortened to 95 pages.
- Filming took place from January 14 to March 8, 1991.
- Fearing the film would receive an NC-17 rating, director Mark L. Lester cut some particularly explicit or violent scenes: A moment in the pool scene showing a woman with exposed breasts was cut; Some moments from the scene of the dancer's (Edela’s) murder were cut: an episode where Yoshida delivers an additional sword strike was removed. A moment at the very end of the scene, where her severed head falls to the floor, was also removed; The moment of killing the fat Yakuza in the sauna fight scene was shortened: it showed Kenner twisting a knife in his stomach in different directions; A scene of Minako’s rape was completely cut, as it was considered too violent by viewers at test screenings. As a result, the film received an R rating, but was released with an "18+" age restriction in the US.
- All the swords used in the film were replicas, with the exception of the one used by Dolph Lundgren’s character when he cut through bundles of bamboo – that was a genuine samurai sword.
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