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Re: SHOWDOWN IN LITTLE TOKYO (Mark L. Lester, 1991)
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12 Aug 2022, 11:14by alex.sp89
I never heard any interviews with composer David Michael Frank on youtube or journals, newspapers... He is always into the shadows. He deserves to be interviewed by someone on podcast. One of the greatest composers of all the time who can provide good scores for action movies, comedies and dramas. He is good in everything. Bravo
SILT score is absolutely amazing, on the same level as Seagal early movies. His music is very contemporary even today when you are listening OST from his movies . It aged really well, as the movie itself(Silt)
Re: SHOWDOWN IN LITTLE TOKYO (Mark L. Lester, 1991)
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12 Aug 2022, 11:36by Jox
I have tried to interview David Michael Frank for years or even decades now, I never heard back from him.
Re: SHOWDOWN IN LITTLE TOKYO (Mark L. Lester, 1991)
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14 Aug 2022, 14:38by alex.sp89
Did anyone from forum members attend this SILT screening ? What version was shown - R or Unrated ?
Re: SHOWDOWN IN LITTLE TOKYO (Mark L. Lester, 1991)
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14 Aug 2022, 15:37by alex.sp89
Apparently there was a surprise for us. Gerald Okamura signed some stills for the fans
Re: SHOWDOWN IN LITTLE TOKYO (Mark L. Lester, 1991)
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24 Aug 2022, 12:52by alex.sp89
Every action fan should read this article. Even if i can disagree in something this guy is accurate in this list. I would add something more... but this in about me
https://www.flickeringmyth.com/2022/08/ ... on-movies/SILT and Unisol, 2 DL movies that made 90s fantastic
Re: SHOWDOWN IN LITTLE TOKYO (Mark L. Lester, 1991)
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24 Aug 2022, 13:02by Jox
"This guy" is veteran member (of our forum) Tom Jolliffe...
Tom is also a Flickering Myth regular and has since become a prolific screenwriter.
Re: SHOWDOWN IN LITTLE TOKYO (Mark L. Lester, 1991)
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24 Aug 2022, 19:10by alex.sp89
Thanks. Good to know. SILT achieved cult status. The score by DMF saved the movie from all the problems it has.
I am happy that more stills and lobby cards are resurfacing every year. The site photo gallery should be updated. Fresh Brandon Lee pic from the movie
By the way many have noticed that the guy with the mustache is the same one who broke his own neck at the police station at the beginning of the movie... They thought he is unrecognizable with mustache or what ?!
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Re: SHOWDOWN IN LITTLE TOKYO (Mark L. Lester, 1991)
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31 Aug 2022, 21:15by Jox
Re: SHOWDOWN IN LITTLE TOKYO (Mark L. Lester, 1991)
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02 Sep 2022, 13:32by alex.sp89
It amaze me today when we see advert showing this prices for VHS tape back in the day. Someone used to be rich to buy a VHS tape closer 100 dollars. Every movie was recovering their money from video sales, not like today in the era of internet.
I wonder how much money did it make in rentals and video sales and tv broadcast sale rights price
Re: SHOWDOWN IN LITTLE TOKYO (Mark L. Lester, 1991)
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02 Sep 2022, 13:50by Jox
Those are prices for rental video stores, not single customers like you and me, so with the rental costing only a few dollars they got their money back really quickly.
Re: SHOWDOWN IN LITTLE TOKYO (Mark L. Lester, 1991)
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14 Sep 2022, 11:46by Jox
Re: SHOWDOWN IN LITTLE TOKYO (Mark L. Lester, 1991)
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19 Sep 2022, 01:23by Jox
Best 90s Direct-to-Video Action Movieshttps://www.joblo.com/best-90s-direct-t ... on-movies/What do you get when you mix Brandon Lee, Dolph Lundgren, Tia Carrere, Cary-Hiroyuki Tagawa, and Commando (1985) director Mark L. Lester? Well, you get this insanity. Somewhere between the wild action sequences (yes a fight between Lee and Lundgren does happen early on and it is glorious) the music sequences, the setting, the accidental (?) homoerotic lines, and the sheer insanity of that ending, this film is a classic for many 90s action fans. Yes, this one did get a small (tiny really) contractually-obligated theatrical release, but it made less than $500,000 so most people saw it as a video rental. This one is all over the place in the best ways possible. See if if you haven’t, thank us later.
* It actually made more than $2 million, not 500,000...
Re: SHOWDOWN IN LITTLE TOKYO (Mark L. Lester, 1991)
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16 Oct 2022, 10:28by alex.sp89
A very nice Bulgarian VHS cover that i never saw before. European artwork covers are the best. Plenty of stills. It one of my favorite. I never knew in the 90s that this movie was mostly a DTV movie. Poster is awesome and it deserved to get more theatrical releases around the world. One of the best WB action movie from the era along early Seagal movies. When I think what action movies got DTV movies at the same time - SILT is a masterpiece. Martial Law, for ex. was also a DTV movie in 1991 , BUT IT IS FAR INFERIOR TO SILT. SILT has theatrical values in it and deserved a better fate
Re: SHOWDOWN IN LITTLE TOKYO (Mark L. Lester, 1991)
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16 Oct 2022, 13:18by Jox
alex.sp89 wrote:I never knew in the 90s that this movie was mostly a DTV movie.
Italy and Hungary were the only European countries where SILT was not DTV. Also DTV in Japan. And Seagal's OUT FOR JUSTICE also got mostly a DTV release in Europe...
Re: SHOWDOWN IN LITTLE TOKYO (Mark L. Lester, 1991)
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16 Oct 2022, 16:37by alex.sp89
Well Seagal was never a big moneymaker overseas. He was very recognized in the US, making about 50 millions at domestic box office, but overseas about 20 millions only. It changed only after Under Siege making good money all over the world.
Lundgren, as Van Damme, did not make huge money in the US, but they were really big stars oversees. I consider they needed to give more theatrical releases in Europe. As Jox said Hungary released it in theatres and it was in top 10 movies in 1992 domesticaly. Also in the US only 142 theatres (mostly in LA) on what did studio counted to make money if is not in theatres ?!
