Miami Connection (1987)
Greetings from the most dangerous jungle in the world: the streets of Miami.
In a world where ninjas dream of being rock stars and rock stars dream of being ninjas, a martial arts rock band goes up against a band of motorcycle ninjas who have tightened their grip on Florida's narcotics trade.
- Date of release
- 1987-08-18
- TMDB
- 5.2 / 10 (155)
- Runtime
- 1h 27m
- Genres
- Action, Crime, Music
- Director
- Y.K. Kim, Richard Park Wu-sang
Casting
- Y.K. Kim — Mark
- Vincent Hirsch — John
- Joseph Diamand — Jack
- Maurice Smith — Jim
- Angelo Janotti — Tom
- Kathy Collier — Jane
- William Ergle — Jeff
- Si Y Jo — Yashito
- William P. Young — Club Owner
- Joy Sharpe — Club Owner's Girlfriend
- Richard Park Wu-sang — Uncle Song
- William Whitacre — Music Store Owner
Interesting facts
Miami Connection is a 1987 American independent martial arts film starring Y.K. Kim, who also wrote and produced the feature. Originally, the film was critically maligned and received a poor box office return upon release. It remained unseen for decades until Drafthouse Films restored the film for a proper release in 2012. The film was released on DVD, Blu-ray, limited-edition VHS, and various digital download options on December 11, 2012. Since then, the film has been better received by audiences and has garnered a cult following.
Production
The film was made in 1987. Film director Richard Park (a.k.a. Park Woo-sang) saw Y.K. Kim on the Korean talk show Meet at 11 P.M. (11시에 만납시다) in 1985. Kim was promoting a book about taekwondo. Park met Kim and convinced him to make a film. Park conceived the story while watching Kim's interview. Early plans involved casting Bobby Kim (no relation to Y.K. Kim) as one of two brothers, with Y.K. Kim playing the other.
Kim borrowed from friends, took out loans, spent all of his savings, and mortgaged his taekwondo school to finance the film. He had never made a film before. Erin Sullivan of Orlando Weekly said that Kim "had no idea what he was doing".
After the rejection, Kim continued work on the film by refilming and reworking portions. A small distribution company purchased the film for $100,000. Sullivan states that Kim planned to "make a movie that draws attention to 'exciting martial arts action (not computer-generated).'"
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