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Re: SHOWDOWN IN LITTLE TOKYO (Mark L. Lester, 1991)

PostPosted: 15 May 2020, 04:14
by alex.sp89
Thank u Jox . This magazines from '90s are the best, top quality for real action fans. I still have magazines fro that era in my parents house kept like treasure and locked in vaults. Also stickers from bubble gum ! Still have all of them ! Turkish bubble gum Commando with real good quality stills from action movies. Mortal Kombat, Terminator, Van Damme ( he has the biggest amount of albums and stickers than every other action movie star in my opinion). Titanic ( for girls... yeah). I remember renting videotapes with all this movies and was searching all those stills and lobby cards (most of them from Turkey), comparing and finding many deleted scenes. Kids nowadays don't even know what was that.... where are my young days !

Or buying a newspaper with TV program for the next week and on the sides of each page we got information and pics from the coolest movies on each day. That wae the videoboom era that is gone, basically industry is gone too... what a pity. All this MARVELS u can.t compare with action stars, where industry was based on actor, nowadays on brand only ! And for me Dolph was always more sympathetic than Arnie ( sorry Arnie but too much steroids), my cousin sister was crazy about this blond muscle guy...



Jox any chance that u got this magazine as well

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SILT 1991
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Re: SHOWDOWN IN LITTLE TOKYO (Mark L. Lester, 1991)

PostPosted: 15 May 2020, 20:21
by Jox
alex.sp89 wrote:Titanic ( for girls... yeah).

Off topic but where does that idea come from??!

Jox any chance that u got this magazine as well

Yes, I do



I'm not sure if I posted that Dolph interview excerpt before:
(my translation from French; CINE-NEWS #37, July/August 1992 issue)
We didn't see SHOWDOWN IN LITTLE TOKYO in theaters?
DL: No, and I prefer it that way, because I'm not very happy of this film. I don't blame anybody and I consider this experience as a good lesson. I learnt that I had to choose a very good director and be demanding with the script.

You're done dropping/giving up martial arts?
DL: I think it would be better for me. In movies, karate is more appropriate to actors of small sizes. I'm too tall and anyway I'm more attracted to action films where the hero throws somebody out the window with a punch! Like John Wayne for instance!

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Re: SHOWDOWN IN LITTLE TOKYO (Mark L. Lester, 1991)

PostPosted: 15 May 2020, 22:18
by alex.sp89
In my opinion he was just angry what they done with movie during re-editing process. It was a fresh scar on his soul, less than a year passed after SILT got released in August 1991, and it was basically home video for the most countries. Before that during post-production he was thinking that Showdown will be his second big hit after Rocky 4 and he tried really hard saying it 's going to have a good distribution company. Before that Masters was Cannon - aka cheap Hollywood, Red Scorpion - Warner back up, Baumgarten sucks, The Punisher- New World bankruptcy and released after 2 years in the US (1991), Dark Angel - Paramount didn't promote the movie, Cover Up- - I even don't know who was the original production company and it was a very strange movie in his career and more an experiment for Dolph) (in my opinion) and SILT was his hope

People re-watch it every year and loved it, Warner Bros don't even now that and don't care. This movie has humor, fights, shoot outs,octane adrenaline, women (little nudity) all mix together for a good night after work

Re: SHOWDOWN IN LITTLE TOKYO (Mark L. Lester, 1991)

PostPosted: 30 Jun 2020, 16:07
by alex.sp89
I was wondering why nobody released the Unrated version of SILT on Blu Ray yet. R-Rated Version has 5 years since it's available on Warner Blu ray but Unrated cut is still just on DVD PAL from late '90s. Maybe a fan edit cut ? Or SD inserts like Punisher (1989) Koch Media and other edition...

SILT one of the best buddy cop movies ever

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Dolph and Brandon Promo Still
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Re: SHOWDOWN IN LITTLE TOKYO (Mark L. Lester, 1991)

PostPosted: 02 Jul 2020, 15:50
by alex.sp89
New SILT items for sale on Ebay

DOLPH LUNDGREN 'SHADOW IN LITTLE TOKYO' PHOTO SLIDE SET RARE 35MM - mistake in the name of the movie but this doesn't change a lot
Last pic I never saw it before , jewel for the fans. Enjoy

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Re: SHOWDOWN IN LITTLE TOKYO (Mark L. Lester, 1991)

PostPosted: 27 Jan 2021, 20:27
by Jox

Re: SHOWDOWN IN LITTLE TOKYO (Mark L. Lester, 1991)

PostPosted: 02 Feb 2021, 21:58
by Jox
Realised that SILT was in production 30 years ago (from January to March 1991)...!

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Re: SHOWDOWN IN LITTLE TOKYO (Mark L. Lester, 1991)

PostPosted: 13 Mar 2021, 19:07
by Jox
French rental video release poster

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Re: SHOWDOWN IN LITTLE TOKYO (Mark L. Lester, 1991)

PostPosted: 07 Apr 2021, 16:42
by Jox
Korean VHS

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Re: SHOWDOWN IN LITTLE TOKYO (Mark L. Lester, 1991)

PostPosted: 16 Apr 2021, 10:45
by Jox
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Brandon Lee with @jimmytaenaka behind the scenes of Showdown in Little Tokyo.
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Repost from @brandon_draven_ .

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Re: SHOWDOWN IN LITTLE TOKYO (Mark L. Lester, 1991)

PostPosted: 02 May 2021, 10:05
by bomaz
Nathan Jung(who worked alongside Bruce lee, and played the Bonsai manager in SILT) passed away.

Re: SHOWDOWN IN LITTLE TOKYO (Mark L. Lester, 1991)

PostPosted: 18 May 2021, 09:27
by Jox
Interview with Philip Tan (Tanaka in SILT)
https://kungfukingdom.com/interview-with-philip-tan/

You also worked, of course, alongside the late Brandon Lee and Dolph Lundgren on “Showdown in Little Tokyo” what memories stand out to you most vividly from then?

Well, Brandon was a lovely guy, we talked a lot about life and his father and where he was headed in his future. He also told me about the movie he had coming up, “The Crow”, and he was just a humble, good dude. We didn’t know he’d pass away so soon after that, but it was great to hear him share stories about Bruce, and I asked him what he thought about the conspiracy theories around Bruce’s death, and he said, “No, the medical people showed that he’d died the way it was reported, and it is what it is.”

Dolph was also a lovely guy and a real martial artist, he was a real European kickboxing champion, which a lot of people aren’t aware of.

Re: SHOWDOWN IN LITTLE TOKYO (Mark L. Lester, 1991)

PostPosted: 15 Jun 2021, 10:26
by Jox

Re: SHOWDOWN IN LITTLE TOKYO (Mark L. Lester, 1991)

PostPosted: 29 Jun 2021, 22:52
by Jox
Theatrical poster for Lebanon

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Re: SHOWDOWN IN LITTLE TOKYO (Mark L. Lester, 1991)

PostPosted: 28 Jul 2021, 13:13
by Jox
LEGACY OF RAGE Indonesian VCD cover with SHOWDOWN pics
https://www.instagram.com/p/CR3epaPNsSa/