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Kim: Yes, everyone was my student and nobody knew how to make a movie. Paste: The actors in it, they were all your students? What did they think of the finished movie? Some people say they’ve watched it 10 times or 100 times. It’s the friendship that has touched them.
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Now, though, I’m so glad that people come up to me and write me emails saying that this movie changed their life. I was close to bankrupt, and I lost almost everything. Paste: I’ve read in places that you sunk a million dollars into the production and that it almost bankrupt you to make the film. This is a movie I took to all the major studios, and all 100 I brought it to told me to just throw it away. I had the imagination, but how stupid I was to think it would win Academy Awards. One of the major newspapers here called it the worst movie of the year, and I just said “oh my god.” I am not a critic about the movie I thought we did a good job. But I had the expectation all wrong, thinking it was a blockbuster. Kim: We show why you need to practice martial arts for self defense. Paste: What did you hope Miami Connection might achieve? How high were your expectations? But when he asked me I just said “yes,” and it didn’t matter that I didn’t know how to make a movie at all. Kim: All martial artists do dream about becoming movie stars often, but I was too busy teaching martial arts, I didn’t even watch movies. Paste: Had you ever thought about making a film before you met Richard Park, who directed Miami Connection? It’s made me healthier, wiser and happier. I couldn’t do many things because I didn’t have any confidence. Without martial arts I am weak, like a stupid person. Martial arts is much, much bigger than my life. Paste: Would you say you still have the same philosophy about taekwondo that you featured in Miami Connection? Now it’s the sixth richest country on Earth but at this time I was looking for the American Dream, setting up martial arts schools. Kim: Well, a long time ago, Korea was poor. Paste: What was it that brought you to America? In honor of his amazing movie (which features a taekwondo synth rock band battling drug-smuggling motorcycle ninjas), check out the below trailer and our interview with the now 59-year-old taekwondo master responsible for one of the most hilariously silly action movies of all time. Some 28 years later, the Korean-born Kim’s English is a bit better, but his refreshingly sincere spirit and belief in the power of friendship and synth rock is fully intact, and he’s very eager to discuss both his beliefs and experience on the film. Kim-the genuine article from the film, unadulterated, unguarded and “stronger than ever,” in his own words. What I found was essentially exactly what I hoped for, and that’s Y.K. You don’t just let these opportunities slip by. When offered the chance, though, in conjunction with tonight’s live national screening of the film by the former MST3k riffers at RiffTrax, I knew I had to do it. Interviewing the writer/producer/star of 1987 cult classic action film Miami Connection wasn’t something I ever considered as a likelihood or possibility, especially given that one of the chief areas of humor bad movie devotees have cherished in the film is that Kim can barely speak English throughout, in a role that is more or less the film’s star.
I really, sincerely, had no idea what to expect when I dialed the number I’d been given to reach Grandmaster Y.K.
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