Showdown in Little Tokyo
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| Directed by | Mark L. Lester |
| Produced by | Martin E. Caan Mark L. Lester |
| Written by | Stephen Glantz Caliope Brattlestreet |
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| Music by | David Michael Frank |
| Cinematography | Mark Irwin |
| Edited by | Robert A. Ferretti Steven Kemper |
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Warner Bros. (Time Warner) |
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79 minutes |
| Country | United States |
| Language | English Japanese |
| Budget | $8 million |
| Box office | $2.3 million |
Showdown in Little Tokyo is a 1991 American buddy cop-action film directed by Mark L. Lester, and starring Dolph Lundgren and Brandon Lee. This was Brandon Lee's first American film role. The film was released in the United States on August 23, 1991.
Los Angeles (L.A.) cop Chris Kenner (Dolph Lundgren) is an American who was raised in Japan. He is given a new partner, Johnny Murata (Brandon Lee), an American of partial Japanese descent. Kenner does not appreciate American culture, while Johnny does not much like Japanese culture. One thing they both enjoy are the martial arts, of which they are both experts. The two are assigned to L.A.'s Little Tokyo, where they break up some criminal activity in a Japanese restaurant, and an arrest is made.
While Kenner and Johnny are questioning the suspect, Kenner loses his temper and rips the suspect's shirt, and the tattoos that Kenner sees on the suspect remind Kenner of when he was 9 years old, a time when he witnessed his parents being killed by a member of the Yakuza. The tattoos are the trademark of the Iron Claw Yakuza clan. However, before Kenner or Murata can get any information out of the suspect, he kills himself in the interrogation room by breaking his own neck.
On the other side of town, the leader of the Iron Claw, Yoshida (Cary-Hiroyuki Tagawa), kills the owner of a popular downtown nightclub called the Bonsai Club by crushing the owner, Tanaka (Philip Tan), in a car compactor. To celebrate "gaining" ownership of the Bonsai Club, Yoshida throws a party at his house with all of the club staff.
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