History Film / MiamiConnection

* PrettyInMink: Jane wears a gray rabbit fur jacket in the scene where the heroes are challenged by another gang.

* 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.

* RoaringRampageOfRevenge: When Jim get severely wounded by the ninjas, the Mark and John unleash their rage on the ninjas and brutally kill them all in another MoodWhiplash by the movie. Jim gets better, thankfully.

* ThePowerOfFriendship: Some of the songs are based on it, including "Friends for Eternity".

* ImprovisedWeapon: Various character grab sticks and barrels to throw and whack each other with. Jim puzzlingly carries a short piece of PVC pipe to the rescue of Tom, even though he would have had plenty of time to pack a better weapon.

* BadassMustache: Tom sports one in addition to his curly mullet and CarpetOfVirility, making him so 80s it hurts.

->''"Greetings from the most dangerous jungle in the world: the streets of Miami"''

* AbsurdlySharpBlade: Those ninja swords are insane. Witness as one of ninjas gets his head cut off at the neck with one strike and another gets slashed on his face that looks like clay. Also, one of the cocaine dealers in the beginning of the movie gets his arm cut off with one strike.

On October 1, 2015, RiffTrax will be [[{{MST}} riffing]] the film live. TheCinemaSnob has also [[http://www.thecinemasnob.com/the-cinema-snob/miami-connection reviewed it]].

* AbsurdlySharpBlade: Those ninja swords are insane. Witness as one of ninjas gets his 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 his arm cut off with one strike.

* RoaringRampageOfRevenge: When Jim get mortally wounded by the ninjas, the Mark and John unleash their rage on the ninjas and brutally kill them all in another MoodWhiplash by the movie. Jim gets better, thankfully.

* VillainsOutShopping: The White Ninja seems to be both a ninja and a biker at heart and enjoys hanging with big burely and bearded bikers.

* DawsonCasting: The main characters are supposed to be in college (presumably for their Bachelor's degrees), but they all look too old to even be undergraduates.

* EightiesHair: Virtually everyone. Aesthetically, this film is almost a perfect time capsule from 1987.

* MissingEpisode: Narrowly averted. The pre-DVD disclaimer states that the negative was destroyed in a hurricane, though luckily the people at [[NetworkToTheRescue Drafthouse Films]] were able to reconstruct it using existing footage.

* OldShame: The film was this for Y.K. Kim, until it's rediscovery in 2010 by the B-movie crowd.

* 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 it with permission from Y.K. Kim.

* UnintentionalPeriodPiece: A group of Taekwondo-trained orphans who play in a college synthrock band fight against a drug ring composed of bikers and ninjas? Only in TheEighties could such a premise ever be green-lit and played with a straight face.

* WhatCouldHaveBeen: The original ending would have had [[spoiler:Jim dying from his wounds on the way to the hospital]] and the White Ninja never fighting Mark at all.

* DeepSouth: A small but noticeable share of the mooks our heroes face off against are stereotypical "redneck" stereotypes, to the point of surreal caricature.

* DeepSouth/TheSavageSouth: A small but noticeable share of the mooks our heroes face off against are stereotypical "redneck" stereotypes, to the point of surreal caricature.

* DawsonCasting: The main characters are supposed to be in college, but they are all look too old to even be undergraduates.

'' '''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.

* UnintentionalPeriodPiece: A group of Taekwondo-trained orphans who play in a college synthrock band fight against a gang of drug-trafficking bikers and ninjas? Only in TheEighties could such an idea ever be considered.

On October 1, 2015, RiffTrax will be [[{{MST}} riffing]] the film live.

The official re-release trailer cut by HoboWithAShotgun director Jason Eisener can be seen [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VpZu69OB2KM here.]]

On October 1, 2015, RiffTrax will be MSTing the film live.

* ThePowerOfFriendship: Some of the songs are based on it.
* PrettyInMink: Jane wears a gray rabbit fur jacket.

* SeriousBusiness: Being the in-house band of a particular Orlando club is ''serious'' business for Dragon Sound's rivals, and they take getting fired and replaced by Dragon Sound badly. They're so obsessed with getting their job back that they actually hire thugs to kill them! In fact, they're ''so'' obsessed with getting their job back they offer their future paycheck for playing as payment to the thugs!

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.

* TheVillainSucksSong: "Against the Ninja," which is about the cocaine-swiping ninja villains. Strangely, the song gets sung at the beginning of the film, when the band would have no idea who the ninjas are or what they were doing.

* ShaggyDogStory: Narrowly averted Meta example. The film was made in 1987, did poorly at the box office, didn't get national distribution upon initial release and got laughed out of the Cannes Film Festival. It wasn't until 2012 that it received attention via it's re-release through Drafthouse Films.

* NinjaPirateZombieRobot: Cocaine-dealing motorcycle-riding Miami ninjas. In Orlando.

* TwoferTokenMinority: Jim, who is half-black, half-Korean.

* WouldntHitAGirl: In spite of being a Tae Kwon Do blackbelt, Tom does not defend himself from the various women who attack him on the beach. His friends have to drag him away by the foot when he curls into a fetal position.

* SoBadItsGood

* TheyFightCrime