History YMMV / ShowdownInLittleTokyo

* SpecialEffectsFailure: Yoshida's tattoos progressively fade away during the final fight with Kenner.

* RetroactiveRecognition: Cary Hiroyuki Tagawa would get steady work for the next three decades, but he is most iconic for bringing [[Film/MortalKombatTheMovie Shang Tsung]] to life.

* RetroactiveRecognition: Cary Hiroyuki Tagawa would get steady work for the next three decades, but he is most iconic for bringing [[Film/MortalKombat Shang Tsung]] to life.

* CompleteMonster: [[BigBad Funekei Yoshida]] is a ruthless {{Yakuza}} boss who takes control of the Los Angeles drug trade by [[RuthlessForeignGangsters dismembering his opposition]] and proceeds to shake down the inhabitants of the Little Tokyo district. When he was still a lowly assassin in Japan, he [[YouKilledMyFather murdered the parents]] of the young [[TheHero Chris Kenner]] and [[WouldHurtAChild tried to kill the boy]] next. In the present he has a man crushed inside a car to take over his business, then, mid-coitus, [[OffWithHisHead decapitates a girl]] who tried to warn the previous victim about Yoshida. He [[IHaveYouNowMyPretty kidnaps and rapes Minako]], a singer who works in his new club, after forcing her to watch the tape he shot of himself beheading her friend Angel. He's merciless towards [[YouHaveFailedMe any failure]] from [[BadBoss his own men]], and arranges for the two heroes, Johnny Murata and Sgt. Chris Kenner, to be painfully [[ElectricTorture tortured to death through electrocution]]. When they inevitably escape and come back for him, he [[ManOnFire tries to burn Minako]] alive out of spite.
* HarsherInHindsight: The medical examiner Kenner and Murata meet following the death of Angel notes that she took a fatal dose of amphetamines, remarking that it makes crack look tame by comparison and warns that it will become a real problem if it ever gets popular. Twenty years later, methamphetamine use and addiction in the United States skyrocketed, and by the early 2010's it became a serious nationwide drug problem widely considered a national health emergency.

* RetroactiveRecognition: Cary Hiroyuki Tagawa would get steady work for the next three decades, but is most iconic for bringing [[Film/MortalKombat Shang Tsung]] to life.

* SpiritualLicensee: ''Showdown in Little Tokyo'' is as close one can get to a movie version of {{Creator/SNK}}'s ''VideoGame/BurningFight''. What with fighting a Yakuza gang, but taking place in [[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin Little Tokyo]], instead of Osaka, Japan in the arcade game.

** This was Tia Carrere's most visible role, prior to [[Film/{{Wayne's World}}]] one year later making her one of the most desirable women of the decade.

* SpiritualLicensee: ''Showdown in Little Tokyo'' is as close one can get to a movie version of {{Creator/SNK}}'s Burning Fight. What with fighting a Yakuza gang, but taking place in [[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin Little Tokyo]], instead of Osaka, Japan in the arcade game.

* SpiritualLicensee: ''Showdown in Little Tokyo'' is as close one can get to a movie version of {{SNK}}'s Burning Fight. What with fighting a Yakuza gang, but taking place in [[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin Little Tokyo]], instead of Osaka, Japan in the arcade game.

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* CompleteMonster: Yoshida is a {{Yakuza}} boss who is asserting his undisputed rule over the drug trade in Los Angeles by [[RuthlessForeignGangsters terrifying all criminal opposition with casual dismemberment]] and over the Little Tokyo district by threatening the local business owners to accept his "protection". When he was still a lowly assassin in Japan two decades ago, he [[YouKilledMyFather hacked up the young hero's parents]] in front of the boy and tried to kill him next before the kid stopped him with his own katana. In the present, he crushes a man inside his car to take over his business and decapitates a girl named Angel in mid-coitus for trying to warn the victim. The coroner later points out that the girl was actually already fed so much drugs by Yoshida that she'd be dead in minutes anyway, cutting off her head as well served no purpose beyond cruelty. He [[IHaveYouNowMyPretty kidnaps and rapes Minako]], a singer who works for him, after forcing her to watch the tape he shot of himself beheading her friend Angel. He [[YouHaveFailedMe murders one of his own men for failing to stop the heroes from rescuing her]] because he found the [[{{Yubitsume}} traditional offer of a finger]] to be lacking. After he captures the two heroes he first tries to torture them to death by electrocution while forcing the singer to watch, and when that fails mash them to bits in a car grinder. When they come back to finish him off after faking their deaths he tries to burn Minako alive out of spite.

* SpiritualLicensee: ''Showdown in Little Tokyo'' is as close one can get to a movie version of {{SNK}}'s Burning Fight. What with fighting a Yakuza gang, but taking place in [[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin Little Tokyo]], instead of Osaka, Japan in the arcade game.

* SpiritualLicensee: ''ShowdownInLittleTokyo'' is as close one can get to a movie version of {{SNK}}'s Burning Fight. What with fighting a Yakuza gang, but taking place in [[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin Little Tokyo]], instead of Osaka, Japan in the arcade game.

* ''ShowdownInLittleTokyo'' is as close one can get to a movie version of {{SNK}}'s Burning Fight. What with fighting a Yakuza gang, but taking place in [[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin Little Tokyo]], instead of Osaka, Japan in the arcade game.