| 1 | * 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 he 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. |
| 2 | * HarsherInHindsight: The medical examiner Kenner and Murata meet following the death of Angel notes that she took a fatal dose of amphetamines, remarks 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 2010s, it became a serious nationwide drug problem widely considered a national health emergency. |
| 3 | * HoYay: Between buddy cops Kenner and Murata. The most outrageous example is right before a fight scene: |
| 4 | --> '''Murata:''' Kenner, just in case we get killed, I wanted to tell you, you have the biggest dick I've ever seen on a man.\ |
| 5 | '''Kenner:''' [nods] Thanks, I don't know what to say. |
| 6 | * RetroactiveRecognition: |
| 7 | ** 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. |
| 8 | ** This was Tia Carrere's most visible role, prior to ''Film/WaynesWorld'' one year later making her one of the most desirable women of the decade. |
| 9 | * SpecialEffectsFailure: Yoshida's tattoos gradually fade away during the final fight with Kenner. |
| 10 | * 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. |
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