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‘Miami Connection’ arrives in theaters in all its glorious badness
11.01.2012
03:09 pm
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Imagine a really gonzo episode of Miami Vice crossbred with a zero-budget martial arts flick that includes ninjas on motorcyles, bad disco and a bit of Herschell Gordon Lewis-style gore effects and you might get a handle on the rancid charm of the spectacularly inept but endearing Miami Connection.

I’ll let the folks at Drafthouse Films lay the synopsis on you:

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 and the boys are kicking and chopping at the drug world’s smelliest underbelly. It’ll take every ounce of their blood and courage, but Dragon Sound can’t stop until they’ve completely destroyed the dealers, the drunk bikers, the kill-crazy ninjas, the middle-aged thugs, the “stupid cocaine”...and the entire MIAMI CONNECTION!!!

Miami Connection was directed by 9th degree black belt philosopher/author/inspirational speaker Grandmaster Y.K. Kim. Made in 1987 and given a limited video release, the film has been virtually lost since it was made. But thanks to the celluloid junkies at Drafthouse films, this entertaining jaw-dropper is now available for your viewing pleasure starting Nov. 2 at an indie cinema near you. To find out where, click here.

The following clip gives you a taste of the wondrous sights contained in the brain-addled realities of Miami Connection - a world in which hairy, shirtless musicians play their instruments like butchers strangling chickens, young woman go in search of their own private Benatars and coked-up gangsters shake their doo rags in existential despair while ninjas do their dance of death in the neon air.
 

Posted by Marc Campbell
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11.01.2012
03:09 pm
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