Showdown in Little Tokyo is a 1991 American action film directed by Mark L. Lester, and starring Dolph Lundgren and Brandon Lee. This was Brandon Lees first American film role. The film was released in the United States on August 23, 1991.
While Kenner and Johnny are questioning the suspect, Kenner loses his temper and rips the suspects shirt, and the tattoos that Kenner sees on the suspect remind Kenner of when he wasyears old, a time when he witnessed his parents being killed by a member of the Yakuza. The tattoos are the trademark of the Iron Claw Yakuza clan. However, before Kenner or Murata can get any information out of the suspect, he kills himself in the interrogation room by breaking his own neck.On the other side of town, the leader of the Iron Claw, Yoshida CaryHiroyuki Tagawa, kills the owner of a popular downtown nightclub called the Bonsai Club by crushing the owner, Tanaka Philip Tan, in a car compactor. To celebrate gaining ownership of the Bonsai Club, Yoshida throws a party at his house with all of the club staff. ........
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