History Film / ShowdownInLittleTokyo

* RescueRomance: After Kenner saves Minako from captivity and sexual abuse by the villain, she becomes attracted to him and cuddles up to him in his home for safety before they have sex.

* BottomlessMagazines: Kenner and Murata raid Yoshida's drug factory using M-16's, firing hundreds of rounds and never once stopping to reload.

* DefiledForever: The BigBad is strongly implied to have raped the lead singer of his new club. In the next scene the singer is about to commit {{Seppuku}} after Kenner notes that it's usually only done by women in cases of extreme dishonor.

* GiveMeAReason: When Murata and Kenner go to arrest Yoshida at a Japanese bath house, Kenner lists his various crimes and tells him to come with them to the station or give him a reason to blow his head off.
* HassleFreeHotwire: After rescuing Minako from Yoshida's house, Kenner jumps into his car, starts it immediately and drives off.

* KickTheDog: Yoshida's early murder of Angel after she tries to bribe her way out of being killed for warning one of his victims by screwing him in front of his own men. The coroner later notes that they already got her so high on methamphetamines that she would have been dead in 20 minutes anyway. [[OffWithHisHead Decapitating her mid-coitus]] and filming it was redundant and done purely out of cruelty (and possible as a warning).

* MirandaRights: Brandon Lee's character uses the ''Miranda'' rights as TrashTalk during a fight, capping it with the PreMortemOneLiner: "you have the right to be dead".

** A yakuza thug captured by Kenner and Murata snaps his ''own'' neck to avoid being interrogated.

* RapeDiscretionShot: After Yoshida displays a sexual interest in Minako, he's seen dragging her into his bedroom and strips down. He shows her a tape depicting how he decapitated her friend Angel previously and warns her that the same will happen to her if she disobeys him. The actual rape isn't depicted, but it's strongly hinted that Minako is DrivenToSuicide afterwards.

* ReusableLighterToss: Murata throws his into a vat to kill an assailant, which also [[StuffBlowingUp causes explosions all over the factory]].
* RuthlessForeignGangsters: The Yakuza are portrayed as this in a meeting they have in their drug refinery with several established American gangs, including Mexicans, African Americans and bikers. Yoshida cuts off one of the bikers' hands with his katana over a racial insult and cajoles the rest of the gangs to accept his leadership.

* ScrewThisImOuttaHere: The American gangs that Yoshida intends to sell his meth to are already only reluctant participants in the plot, especially after Yoshida cuts a motorcycle gangster's hand off for insulting him. When Kenner and Murata gate-crash his factory in a stolen delivery truck, one of the black mobsters tells Yoshida to clean up his own mess first and they all quickly flee the scene.

* {{Seppuku}}: Minako attempts to commit ''jigai'' (cutting her own throat with a knife) after Yoshida rapes her then leaves her at his house. Kenner, surveilling Yoshida's house from a nearby hilltop, sees her through a window and breaks in to save her life.

* SnuffFilm: Yoshida captured his decapitation by katana of Angel on camera, then later shows it to Minako before proceeding to rape her.

* WalkingShirtlessScene: Kenner spends the gunfight at his home, the electric torture scene and the final sword fight with Yoshida continuously shirtless. Many of the Yakuza are also shirtless a lot of the time to show off their gang tattoos.

* YouKilledMyFather: Before Yoshida became a Yakuza boss he was working as a lowly assassin for the gang when Kenner was growing up in Japan and murdered Kenner's parents in front of him before trying to kill the young boy. This makes the case exceptionally personal for Kenner and he almost blows the bad guy's head off in front of his whole gang when he recognizes him when they meet again. His partner Murata agrees to help him complete his vendetta after Kenner explains it to him.

* FanDisservice: Renee Griffin's character Angel being stripped down to her garter belt using a knife would usually count as {{Fanservice}}, but the scene is presented as extremely unsettling rather than titillating as she's being groped by [[FaceOfAThug Yoshida]] before being decapitated by him.

* MistakenForRacist: Half-Japanese Johnny Murata vents to Chris Kenner about the LAPD assigning him to Little Tokyo despite the fact he barely knows anything about his mother's culture besides martial arts. He wanted Malibu and thinks it's racist that he got sent here instead. Kenner gently informs his partner that Malibu is an L.A. ''Sheriff's'' Department jurisdiction.

* {{Seppuku}}: Minako attempts to commit this after the BigBad is strongly implied to have raped her.

* MexicanStandoff: The heroes and the Yakuza end up in a standoff when they're taken to see the boss. The culture-savvy cop notes that they should make an effort to respect them if they are to be let off with a warning, but when he realizes that it's the same man who [[YouKilledMyFather murdered his parents in Japan years before]] he immediately points his gun at the boss's head. The situation eventually defuses when he points out that too many people saw them come in, so they can't just make the two L.A. cops simply disappear.

* MightyWhitey: A blond, tall, muscular American cop raised in Japanese culture slaughters an army of Yakuza and is physically and martially superior to anyone, including his comic relief half-Asian partner. His sexual prowess is commented on while the Yakuza boss is implied to be impotent unless he beats women and he romances an Asian woman whom the boss had kidnapped and previously raped.

* HighSpeedHijack: Kenner and Yoshida hijack a truck headed for Yoshida's brewery whilst it is moving.

* KickTheDog: Yoshida's early murder of Angel after she tries to bribe her way out of being killed for warning one of his victims by screwing him in front of his own men. The coroner later notes that they already got her so high on methamphetamines that she would have been dead in 20 minutes anyway, [[OffWithHisHead decapitating her mid-coitus]] was redundant and done purely out of cruelty (and possible as a warning).

* MsFanservice:
** Tia Carrere removing her robe and entering a hot tub (although her full nude scenes were done by a body double).
** Renee Griffin being stripped down to her garter belt using a knife.

* SnuffFilm: The Yakuza bad guy captured his decapitation by katana of a woman on camera, then later shows it to one of her friends as a threat of what he might do to her.

* WeHardlyKnewYe: [[spoiler: Angel is murdered within minutes of being introduced to the story.]]

* ShoottheFuelTank: As Kenner drives away from Yoshida's house with Minako, he shoots the fuel tank of a car behind him to create an explosion to keep the bad guys from shooting at him.

* Flashback: The death of Kenner's parents.

* HassleFreeHotwire: After rescuing Minako from Yoshida's house, Kenner jumps into one of the vacant cars, starts it immediately and drives off.

* SexualKarma: Kenner is a [[{{Husk}} muscular sexual dynamo]] whose [[BiggerIsBetterInBed penis size is literally complimented]] by his detective partner. Yoshida is a misogynistic [[SerialRapist rapist]] who is implied to [[TheLoinsSleepTonight not be able to get it up]] unless he [[SexIsViolence physically beats women]].

* GoodPeopleHaveGoodSex: Kenner is a muscular sexual dynamo whose penis size is literally complimented by his detective partner. Yoshida is a misogynistic rapist who is implied to not be able to get it up unless he physically beats women.