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* SocietyMarchesOn: The "flirting" the team engage in during the beach scene more than crosses the line into sexual harrassment...
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* ItsPersonal: Unlike The moment ninjas appear and [[spoiler: mortally wound Jim with a sword is the moment that both Mark and John grabbed swords and kill every ninja in sight.]]
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* TechnicalPacifist: No one in Dragon Sound wants to do any more than rough their rivals up if they had no other choice. [[spoiler: Then Jim nearly gets killed. No one lives!]]
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* BrokenAesop: "Only through the elimination of violence can we achieve world peace." Said after [[KillEmAll Said after destroying all those who just just]] [[spoiler: nearly killed their best friend.]] ]]
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* BrokenAesop: "Only through the elimination of violence can we achieve world peace." Said after [[KillEmAll destroying all those who just [[spoiler: nearly killed their best friend.]] ]]
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* TheWoobie: Poor Jim.
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* FunbagAirbag: Jim Tom gets knocked into the cleavage of a girl sunbathing at the beach when he tries to hit on some girls.ladies. Said girl and her friends then slap him and throw him away.
* HighlyVisibleNinja: Especially when they ride onmotorcycles.motorcycles during the day.
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* FanDisservice: The scene where Jeff and his Asian partner meet up for the second time, with shots of unflattering women flashing and getting groped and a biker mooning at the camera.
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* FanDisservice: The scene where Jeff and his Asian partner the White Ninja meet up for the second third time, with shots of unflattering women flashing and getting groped and a biker mooning at the camera.
* KnightOfCerebus: Once the White Ninja sends his ninjas against Mark and his friends, the movie suddenly takes a very dark tone that greatly contrasts the happier mood of the earlier scenes.
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* RoaringRampageOfRevenge: When the black guy of the main characters gets killed by the ninjas, the rest of the gang unleash their rage on the ninjas and brutally kill them all in another MoodWhiplash by the movie. And then it turns out he didn't die after all.
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* RoaringRampageOfRevenge: When the black guy of the main characters gets killed Jim get mortally wounded by the ninjas, the rest of the gang Mark and John unleash their rage on the ninjas and brutally kill them all in another MoodWhiplash by the movie. And then it turns out he didn't die after all.Jim gets better, thankfully.
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* ChekhovsSkill: Mark's taekwondo skills as demonstrated to his friends turn out to be useful when he fights the White Ninja.
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* MadeOfPlasticine: The ninjas are about as durable as Styrofoam. Witness as one of them gets their head cut off at the neck with one strike.
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* MadeOfPlasticine: The ninjas are about as durable as Styrofoam. Witness as one of them gets their head cut off at the neck with one strike and another gets slash on his face that looks like clay. Also, one of the cocaine dealers in the beginning of the movie gets their arm cut off with one strike.
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* DisneyVillainDeath: How [[spoiler:Jeff]] dies, sparing Mark the trouble.
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* FanDisservice: The scene where Jeff and his Asian partner meet up for the second time, with shots of unflattering women flashing and getting groped and a biker mooning at the camera.
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I don\'t know the cast\'s names ok.
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* FunbagAirbag: Jack gets knocked into the cleavage of a girl sunbathing at the beach when he tries to hit on some girls. Said girl and her friends then slap him and throw him away.
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* FunbagAirbag: Jack Jim gets knocked into the cleavage of a girl sunbathing at the beach when he tries to hit on some girls. Said girl and her friends then slap him and throw him away.
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* WavingSignsAround: During the Beach montage, there's an out-of-place shot of a man from a Christian church holding a sign advocating the establishment of a nudist beach around the Orlando area.
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** Then after Jim tells his story, the movie cuts to the gang going to the beach playing Dragon Sound's "Friends" in the background.
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* BadassCrew: Dragon Sound, a band that also knows taekwondo and manages to hold its own outnumbered in a street fight.
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* DisproportionateRetribution
** The old band threatens to run Dragon Sound out of town simply because they got replaced by them.
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* LargeHam: The manager of the old band, who seems to be shouting all of his lines.
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* JumpCut: Used very inappropriately and is very jarring to the flow of the movie.
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* MoodWhiplash: The movie is filled with them, but for the wrong reasons.
** John goes into Jane's classroom and flirts around with her. The next scene is her talking about her divorced parents and how she doesn't like her gang leader brother.
** John teases Jim by not letting him get his mail. After he gets it, Jim tells his friends about how his father left him at an early age and that his mother died.
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** John teases Jim by not letting him get his mail. After he gets it, Jim tells his friends about how his father left him at an early age and that his mother died.
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* BadBadActing: Oh lordy, just about ''everyone'', but especially Jeff, master of DullSurprise, and Jim's father.
* DawsonCasting: The main characters are supposed to be in college, but they look like they are in their mid thirties. Inverted at the end with Jim's dad, who really obviously has fake gray in his hair.
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* OrphansOrdeal: In quite a MoodWhiplash, the black dude reveals to his buddies that his mother has been dead for a while and that he has never seen his father for a long time and that he misses him.
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* RoaringRampageOfRevenge: When the black guy of the main characters gets killed by the ninjas, the rest of the gang unleash their rage on the ninjas and brutally kill them all in another MoodWhiplash by the movie.
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* RoaringRampageOfRevenge: When the black guy of the main characters gets killed by the ninjas, the rest of the gang unleash their rage on the ninjas and brutally kill them all in another MoodWhiplash by the movie. And then it turns out he didn't die after all.
* SayMyName: During the final battle.
-->'''Jim''': [[OverlyLongScream "AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!"]]
-->'''Mark''': "JIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIII[[{{Narm}} IIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIMMMMM!"]]
* SayMyName: During the final battle.
-->'''Jim''': [[OverlyLongScream "AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!"]]
-->'''Mark''': "JIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIII[[{{Narm}} IIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIMMMMM!"]]
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* TwoferTokenMinority: Jim, who is half-black, half-Korean.
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* TheShelfOfMovieLanguishment: Though produced in 1987 (and given a regional run in 1988), the film wouldn't see a major release until 2012, when Drafthouse Films bought a film print on eBay and restored with permission from Y.K. Kim.
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* {{Engrish}}: Mark suffers from a serious condition of this, making almost all his lines very hard to understand.
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* YoungerThanTheyLook: Apparently, the main characters are supposed to be in college, but they look like they are in their mid thirties.
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* NinjaPirateZombieRobot: Cocaine-dealing motorcycle-riding Miami ninjas. In Orlando.
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* InstantAwesomeJustAddNinjaInstantAwesomeJustAddNinja: The main draw for this movie.
* MadeOfPlasticine: The ninjas are about as durable as Styrofoam. Witness as one of them gets their head cut off at the neck with one strike.
* MadeOfPlasticine: The ninjas are about as durable as Styrofoam. Witness as one of them gets their head cut off at the neck with one strike.
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->''"Greetings from the most dangerous jungle in the world: the streets of Miami"''
'' '''Miami Connection''' '' is a [[MartialArtsMovie martial arts film]] from 1987. The brainchild of director Richard Park and writer/producer/star Grandmaster Y.K. Kim, a Korean Tae Kwon Do expert and motivational speaker, the movie revolves around the adventures of Dragon Sound, a rock and roll band composed of orphaned black belts/college students played mostly by real life students of Y.K. Kim.
As the film begins, a shadowy band of ninja bikers (led by the mysterious White Ninja) is cornering the central Florida cocaine trade by ruthlessly eliminating its rivals. Unfortunately for our heroes, The White Ninja's Orlando associate, the thuggish gang leader Jeff, is the brother of Dragon Sound's lead singer, Jane. Opposed to Jane dating John, the band's lead guitarist, Jeff is enlisted by rival musicians to destroy Dragon Sound once and for all, setting up a conflict resulting in a final showdown between Dragon Sound's leader Mark (Kim) and the leader of the Miami Ninja.
Cue the non-stop martial arts action, the 80s new wave songs that will stick in your head for a week, the ham-fisted romance and overacted family drama as Dragon Sound is caught up in an plot to save Orando (and not Miami) from the White Ninja's Cocaine Trafficking. It's as if the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (and Splinter) were in a band and Shredder dealt in high quality blow.
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!!This movie contains examples of:
* BadBoss: The White Ninja
* BeardOfEvil: Jeff
* BrokenAesop: "Only through the elimination of violence can we achieve world peace." Said after [[KillEmAll destroying all those who just killed their best friend.]]
* [[DrugsAreBad Drugs are bad!]]: Suggested early on to be the ultimate moral of the film, but the plot drifts away somewhat.
* EightiesHair: Virtually everyone. Aesthetically, this film is almost a perfect time capsule from 1987.
* FakeShemp: In the reshot version of the climactic scene, the White Ninja is played by William Eagle (Jeff), as the original actor was no longer available.
* HighlyVisibleNinja: Especially when they ride on motorcycles.
* InstantAwesomeJustAddNinja
* MultinationalTeam: The members of Dragon Sound come from a range of different backgrounds including Korean (Mark), Italian (Tom) and Israeli (Jack).
* {{Overcrank}}: Used in all the wrong places.
* NinjaPirateZombieRobot: Cocaine-dealing motorcycle-riding Miami ninjas. In Orlando.
* OldShame: The film was this for Y.K. Kim, until it's rediscovery in 2010 by the B-movie crowd.
* OrphansOrdeal
* ScreamingWarrior
* TheShelfOfMovieLanguishment: Though produced in 1987 (and given a regional run in 1988), the film wouldn't see a major release until 2012.
* TrueCompanions: Dragon Sound
* TheVillainSucksSong: "Against the Ninja". Strangely, the band sings it at a point in the film when they have no reason to know that the ninjas even exist. Maybe they simply have an aversion to ninjas in general.
->''"Greetings from the most dangerous jungle in the world: the streets of Miami"''
'' '''Miami Connection''' '' is a [[MartialArtsMovie martial arts film]] from 1987. The brainchild of director Richard Park and writer/producer/star Grandmaster Y.K. Kim, a Korean Tae Kwon Do expert and motivational speaker, the movie revolves around the adventures of Dragon Sound, a rock and roll band composed of orphaned black belts/college students played mostly by real life students of Y.K. Kim.
As the film begins, a shadowy band of ninja bikers (led by the mysterious White Ninja) is cornering the central Florida cocaine trade by ruthlessly eliminating its rivals. Unfortunately for our heroes, The White Ninja's Orlando associate, the thuggish gang leader Jeff, is the brother of Dragon Sound's lead singer, Jane. Opposed to Jane dating John, the band's lead guitarist, Jeff is enlisted by rival musicians to destroy Dragon Sound once and for all, setting up a conflict resulting in a final showdown between Dragon Sound's leader Mark (Kim) and the leader of the Miami Ninja.
Cue the non-stop martial arts action, the 80s new wave songs that will stick in your head for a week, the ham-fisted romance and overacted family drama as Dragon Sound is caught up in an plot to save Orando (and not Miami) from the White Ninja's Cocaine Trafficking. It's as if the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (and Splinter) were in a band and Shredder dealt in high quality blow.
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!!This movie contains examples of:
* BadBoss: The White Ninja
* BeardOfEvil: Jeff
* BrokenAesop: "Only through the elimination of violence can we achieve world peace." Said after [[KillEmAll destroying all those who just killed their best friend.]]
* [[DrugsAreBad Drugs are bad!]]: Suggested early on to be the ultimate moral of the film, but the plot drifts away somewhat.
* EightiesHair: Virtually everyone. Aesthetically, this film is almost a perfect time capsule from 1987.
* FakeShemp: In the reshot version of the climactic scene, the White Ninja is played by William Eagle (Jeff), as the original actor was no longer available.
* HighlyVisibleNinja: Especially when they ride on motorcycles.
* InstantAwesomeJustAddNinja
* MultinationalTeam: The members of Dragon Sound come from a range of different backgrounds including Korean (Mark), Italian (Tom) and Israeli (Jack).
* {{Overcrank}}: Used in all the wrong places.
* NinjaPirateZombieRobot: Cocaine-dealing motorcycle-riding Miami ninjas. In Orlando.
* OldShame: The film was this for Y.K. Kim, until it's rediscovery in 2010 by the B-movie crowd.
* OrphansOrdeal
* ScreamingWarrior
* TheShelfOfMovieLanguishment: Though produced in 1987 (and given a regional run in 1988), the film wouldn't see a major release until 2012.
* TrueCompanions: Dragon Sound
* TheVillainSucksSong: "Against the Ninja". Strangely, the band sings it at a point in the film when they have no reason to know that the ninjas even exist. Maybe they simply have an aversion to ninjas in general.
