This article contains Miami Connection spoilers
Friends through eternity. Loyalty. Honesty. These are the core tenants of Dragon Sound, a rock and roll band made up of black belts in Tae Kwon Do who also happen to all be orphans. Ridiculous? Yes. But it’s that sort of excessive cheese that makes Miami Connection such a wonderful movie, and not in an ironic way.
If you know anything about Miami Connection, you probably learned about it from a lover of “so bad, it’s good” movies. Filmed in 1987, Miami Connection was created by Tae Kwon Do Grandmaster Y.K. Kim as a way to raise attention to the martial art he loved. A beloved member of the community of 1980s Orlando, Kim had no problem earning money from investors or getting the mayor to issue permits for the movie to film on city streets. Even easier for Kim was finding actors,...
Friends through eternity. Loyalty. Honesty. These are the core tenants of Dragon Sound, a rock and roll band made up of black belts in Tae Kwon Do who also happen to all be orphans. Ridiculous? Yes. But it’s that sort of excessive cheese that makes Miami Connection such a wonderful movie, and not in an ironic way.
If you know anything about Miami Connection, you probably learned about it from a lover of “so bad, it’s good” movies. Filmed in 1987, Miami Connection was created by Tae Kwon Do Grandmaster Y.K. Kim as a way to raise attention to the martial art he loved. A beloved member of the community of 1980s Orlando, Kim had no problem earning money from investors or getting the mayor to issue permits for the movie to film on city streets. Even easier for Kim was finding actors,...
- 1/20/2023
- by Kirsten Howard
- Den of Geek
Watch the awards trailer for Miami Connection, starring Y.K. Kim, Vincent Hirsch and Joseph Diamand The classic 1987 film distributed by Drafthouse Films found re-release on November 2nd and is expected to be a dark horse contender in this year's awards race. The year is 1987. Motorcycle ninjas tighten their grip on Florida's narcotics trade, viciously annihilating anyone who dares move in on their turf. Multi-national martial arts rock band Dragon Sound have had enough, and embark on a roundhouse wreck-wave of crime-crushing justice. When not chasing beach bunnies or performing their hit song "Against the Ninja," Mark (Tae Kwon Do master/inspirational speaker Y.K. Kim) and the boys are kicking and chopping at the drug world's smelliest underbelly. It'll take every ounce...
- 11/5/2012
- Upcoming-Movies.com
Watch the awards trailer for Miami Connection, starring Y.K. Kim, Vincent Hirsch and Joseph Diamand The classic 1987 film distributed by Drafthouse Films found re-release on November 2nd and is expected to be a dark horse contender in this year's awards race. The year is 1987. Motorcycle ninjas tighten their grip on Florida's narcotics trade, viciously annihilating anyone who dares move in on their turf. Multi-national martial arts rock band Dragon Sound have had enough, and embark on a roundhouse wreck-wave of crime-crushing justice. When not chasing beach bunnies or performing their hit song "Against the Ninja," Mark (Tae Kwon Do master/inspirational speaker Y.K. Kim) and the boys are kicking and chopping at the drug world's smelliest underbelly. It'll take every ounce...
- 11/5/2012
- Upcoming-Movies.com
Chicago – “Cinemapocalypse”! In the latest HollywoodChicago.com Hookup: Film with our unique social giveaway technology, we have 100 admit-two movie passes up for grabs to the Music Box Theatre’s white-hot exploitation film series “Cinemapocalypse”!
The exploitation series is curated by two of the film programmers for Austin’s original Alamo Drafthouse Cinema: Lars Nilsen and Zack Carlson! They’re taking their popular exploitation movie series on the road for two huge nights of sleazy Music Box fun all presented in vintage, 35-millimeter prints from Alamo’s sister organization: the American Genre Film Archive (Agfa).
Our “Cinemapocalypse” winners can choose either “Tourist Trap” this Saturday, July 21, 2012 at 7 p.m. at the Music Box or “Miami Connection” this Saturday, July 21, 2012 at 9 p.m.!
To win your free passes to either “Cinemapocalypse” showing courtesy of HollywoodChicago.com, just get interactive with our unique Hookup technology below. That’s it! The more social actions you complete below,...
The exploitation series is curated by two of the film programmers for Austin’s original Alamo Drafthouse Cinema: Lars Nilsen and Zack Carlson! They’re taking their popular exploitation movie series on the road for two huge nights of sleazy Music Box fun all presented in vintage, 35-millimeter prints from Alamo’s sister organization: the American Genre Film Archive (Agfa).
Our “Cinemapocalypse” winners can choose either “Tourist Trap” this Saturday, July 21, 2012 at 7 p.m. at the Music Box or “Miami Connection” this Saturday, July 21, 2012 at 9 p.m.!
To win your free passes to either “Cinemapocalypse” showing courtesy of HollywoodChicago.com, just get interactive with our unique Hookup technology below. That’s it! The more social actions you complete below,...
- 7/20/2012
- by adam@hollywoodchicago.com (Adam Fendelman)
- HollywoodChicago.com
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