DUDES (and I mean that in the gender-neutral sense of the word)! Have you ever wanted to watch Miami Connection in high-def DVD or Blu-Ray video while rocking out to synth pop on vinyl and wearing a shirt that keeps your guns free while you air keytar? Who am I kidding, of course you have. Well guess what, today is your lucky day, because I have just such a prize pack to give away in honor of Miami Connection’s DVD release. Miami Connection hits DVD, Blu-Ray, VOD, SBD, and most importantly, VHS, today, and you can watch it in high-def right here for $6. So even if you don’t win this sweet prize pack, it’s still a pretty good day.

DO you want to win this prize package? (*points at crotch*)

Here’s how: Be the fourth person to email me correctly answering the following question: What are either of the two alternate titles for Miami Connection (not on IMDB)?

[UPDATE: CLOSED. Congrats, Johnny.]

After the jump, enjoy some Miami Connection trailers and gif-related fun.

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As you may have already learned via Uproxx email, FilmDrunk is co-presenting a series of screenings of Drafthouse Film’s Miami Connection as it karate kicks its way across the country, and it’s for this reason we were able to procure this exclusive For Your Consideration trailer. In case you don’t know, Miami Connection began as a rare 35 mm print of an obscure, 1987 film release bought for $50 on ebay, which was eventually rediscovered by Drafthouse Films and edited by Hobo with a Shotgun‘s Jason Eisner. It tells the story of 9th degree blackbelt YK Kim, leading his gang of synth-pop martial arts band Dragon Sound against drug-dealing motorcycle ninjas on the streets of Orlando. If that description doesn’t sound awesome to you, we probably can’t be friends.

This latest trailer is aimed specifically at the Academy voter, who’d be wise not to forget the name Maurice Smith when Best Actor nominating time comes around. I just like the whole scene that’s going on around him. Everyone’s either sleeveless or shirtless, there’s a picture of a rock star on the wall, one guy’s crying about a picture of his dead father – it’s like an Uproxx meeting with better haircuts.

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If you took my complete and utter apathy for another three-hour Hobbit movie and reversed the polarity, you’d get Miami Connection, a film that combines mullets, 80s synth-pop, sword fights, ninjas, girls in nightclubs with their boobs flopping everywhere and karate. That guy in the banner image? I chopped his arm off with my boner, that’s how excited I am for this.

Edited by HOBO WITH A SHOTGUN Director Jason Eisner for Drafthouse Films, the trailer for this ’80s martial arts gem packs quite a punch.  MIAMI CONNECTION, directed by 9th degree black belt philosopher/author/inspirational speaker Grandmaster Y.K. Kim, tells the story of fearless synth rock band Dragon Sound as they embark on a roundhouse wreck-wave of crime-crushing justice in the streets of Orlando.

The film began as a rare 35mm print of an obscure, 1987 VHS release bought off eBay for fifty dollars, and it has to be worth millions today, because it’s not often these days you find a shirtless Italian dude with a mullet doing karate who’s not trying to be ironic.

What I want, you got, might be haaaard to haaaandle, like a flaaaame that burns a candle… Sorry, that’s just what happens in my head whenever I look at this picture.

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