(Incidentally, watching the movie, I couldn't stop thinking that he looked like 'Conan' writer Deon Cole.) And also, he calls himself the Shogun of Harlem, as if that actually meant anything in the USA. How is it that nobody even questions the idea of a guy going around fighting people and challenging some random kung-fu student to matches? Not to mention, nobody even calls the police on him. I think this movie would make the HDTGM crew's heads explode. There had to be so much cocaine use involved in the making of The Last Dragon. And then Sho Nuff the Shogun pops up once in a while to mix things up.ġ985. That's it, that's what moves this plot along. She hosts an apparently incredibly influential music video program and after kipnapping her, they'll force her to play the white chick's bad pop videos.

bad guy (is he just rich and evil, or a gangster, or what?) wants to make his mistress into a pop star or something, and the way he tries to accomplish that is by having his bungling thugs attempt to kidnap Vanity. The whole crazy story pulling everything together (barely) is this. Also Leroy runs a dojo which comes up later in the movie for no other reason than the Shogun can be a bad guy.Īt some point we find out he's been searching for 'the glow', which you think is like an ultimate zen state or something but no, it turns out that if you're enough of a badass you FUCKING GLOW when you fight. And his rival is the Shogun of Harlem, which would indicate Japan. And everyone in this movie seems to be confused about Asia, because Leeroy practices kung fu but says some Japanese at a couple of points. So, his name is Leroy? Or Bruce Leroy? And he had a master but now he lives with his family I guess.

It has some genuinely fun music in it, Rhythm Of The Night is a jam. The clothes, the hair, the neon, the boomboxes, the everything - it's awesome. And possibly one of the most 'eighties' movies from the 1980s there is. It's like Kung Fu (the tv show) meets Karate Kid, but Motown style.

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