Miami Connection

Yes this is a 1987 film.  Why I am seeing it at a festival?  Because it was billed as "the BEST unseen movie in HISTORY!"  An American-Asian martial arts film from their heyday, this low-budget flick faded into obscurity until it was rescued by the Alamo Drafthouse.  The screening today featured a reunion of the entire Dragon Sound ensemble, the band around which the centers.  (I sat along side them, next to Vincent Hirsch and his wife.)

I'm not sure if this would appeal to many people.  The dialog is awful, the facial hair is straight outta the '80s and the plot is served with queso on top.  My sister-in-law would love it.

Miami Connection
1987, 120 minutes, directed by Woo-sang Park and Y. K. Kim

Crazy Thunder Road

Japanese. Punk. Bikers. You can't resist.

It was a student project of writer/director Sogo Ishii, but it was good enough to be picked up and blown up for the big screen. In some cases, it shows - horrible special effects, strange incongruous cuts - but the bizarre aspects play well with an American crowd.

Crazy Thunder Road
1980, 95 minutes, directed by Sogo Ishii