15 Greatest Guilty Pleasure Movies Of The 1980s

If you were around in the 1980s and saw this movie at the time, you're one among an extremely small number. This madcap martial arts flick, produced, co-directed by and starring Taekwondo master YK Kim, is reported to have screened briefly in a handful of cinemas in Florida and West Germany in 1988, before disappearing completely.

However, on occasion time really does heal all wounds, as recent years have seen Miami Connection re-discovered by the film geek community in Austin, Texas, and unleashed on a willing public who can't get enough of good-bad movies.

And Miami Connection is spectacularly good-bad.

Set, as you might have guessed, in Miami, the film centres on Dragon Sound, a five piece rock band who are also all black belts in Taekwondo, and sing songs about how they will defeat the evil Ninja. Bassist John has started dating Jane, whose brother Jeff (yep, lotta 'J' names) is part of the evil drug-dealing, motorbiking Ninja clan. Naturally, conflict ensues.

Miami Connection is another great guilty pleasure movie which walks that ultra-fine line between outright absurdity and undeniable awesomeness. There's plenty about it that's blatantly ridiculous, from the mere idea of a Taekwondo master rock band battling Ninja bikers, to the abundance of unconvincing gore, to the jaw-droppingly histrionic performances - particularly that of YK Kim himself.

Even so, the fight sequences are genuinely well executed by actors who clearly know their moves, and there's no denying the simple, unpretentious fun of it all.