Trivia / Showdown in Little Tokyo

• Blooper: There are at least two. The first one is when Dolph Lundgren jumps over a car. He is shown standing by the side of the car and uses a spring to catapult himself. The second one is when he shoots a pipe to have the steam inside it distract bad guys. A random man can clearly be seen sitting next to Dolph with a extinguisher and then using it.
• Cast the Expert: In his second most recognizable role, The Dragon Sato is played by action/fight/martial arts choreographer/coordinator turned actor (and legit master of multiple Japanese swordfighting disciplines) Toshishiro Obata. His most recognizable role was playing The Dragon Tatsu in Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (1990) and Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles II: The Secret of the Ooze.
• Creator Backlash: After being disappointed by the studio taking over this film, director Mark L. Lester started to finance and sell his movies himself to keep control over them.
• Deleted Scene: Scenes cut included a different introduction to Kenner, and his former partner Yosuto, more of the Nelson character, played by Ernie Lively, more dramatic scenes between Lundgren and Lee and a scene after the opening gunfight at the underground boxing match where Kenner is chewed out by his superiors for all the mayhem he has caused.
• Direct to Video: Despite a theatrical run in the United States (limited to 140 screens) and a few territories (Italy, Greece, Hungary, Israel, Mexico, Pakistan, Hong Kong, Thailand, and South Korea), Warner Bros ultimately released the film directly to video in most countries. It was the first Dolph Lundgren movie to be released straight to video in countries such as Germany, France, Spain and Japan.
• Executive Meddling:
  • Mark L. Lester's final cut came in at 90 minutes, but after seeing test-screenings results Warner Bros. did, he no longer supported the film and cut it down to 79 minutes.
  • The infamous homoerotic line from Brandon Lee was originally "You have the biggest dick I've ever seen on a white man" and was shortened by Warner Bros (during editing) to "You have the biggest dick I've ever seen on a man".
• Fake American: Kenner is an American played by the Swedish Dolph Lundgren.
• Fake Nationality: The Japanese-American Murata, meanwhile, is played by Chinese-American Brandon Lee. Tia Carrere is Filipino-American, also depicting Japanese-American.
• Hey, It's That Place!: At the crime scene, when Kenner is shown the decapitated girl's dead body, the church in the background is the same building seen in Prince of Darkness. It's a historical landmark, the first Christian church in Little Tokyo, that was repaired and became the Union Center for the Arts after the 1994 earthquake.
  • Recycled Set: The Yakuza's headquarters was also the nightclub owned by Screwface in Marked for Death. The panelling on the walls is a dead giveaway.
• Uncredited Role: Gary DeVore did an uncredited rewrite on the film.
• Whole Costume Reference: One of Toshido's Mooks wears a purple jacket, orange undershirt, and green necktie. Maybe it's just a coincidence the wardrobe department overlooked, but the movie was made just a year after the blockbuster...
• Working Title: Sgt. K, Yakuza.

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