Tokyo Pop Trivia

1988

“

An American success story that's way hip, way cool, and way far from home!

Trivia

Totally Trivia

Film facts for the 1988 Dance / Music movie starring Carrie Hamilton, Diamond Yukai, Hiroshi Kobayashi, Hiroshi Sugita

Satoshi Kanai, Toshimitsu Deyama, Yoshiki Hayashi, Tomoaki Ishizuka, Rome Kanda, Hideto Matsumoto, Hiroshi Mikami, Taiji Sawada, Toki Shiozawa, Tetsuro Tamba, Taiji Tonoyama Update Cast

We believe the following trivia is all legit. If it's bogus or you have additional info, please update us.

Thanks to Kiki

Update

The guitarist for X (later to be known as X-Japan), hide, always spells his name with a lower case 'h'; that's just how it's done. This may not seem like a big deal, but for hard core hide fans, it is.

Rewind Archive

Update

Carrie Hamilton is the real life daughter of legendary comedian Carol Burnett. Carrie wrote the song "Never Forget" which she sings at the end of the movie. Sadly, Carrie Hamilton died this year, January 20th 2002, of lung and brain cancer.

Rewind Archive

Update

Yutaka Tadokoro, "Hiro", was at the time in a famous Japanese band called the Red Warriors. He was most recently seen in 1998's "Samurai Fiction", a humerous homage to Samurai movies.

Rewind Archive

Update

Fran Rubel Kuzui, who wrote and directed "Tokyo Pop", as well as directing the 1992, manga-like "Buffy the Vampire Slayer" is now an executive producer of the highly successful t.v. shows "Buffy The Vampire Slayer" and "Angel".

Thanks to Teresa Parks

Update

Carrie Hamilton can also be seen in Seasons 5 & 6 on the hit TV show "Fame" - which was based on the hit movie.

Thanks to Em

Update

The members of X who were featured in Tokyo Pop were: Toshi, Yoshiki, Taiji and Pata. Hide, guitarist, is the one in the back with all the hair who is hiding from view. At the filming, hide would have been a new member of the band and the band would have been two years away from their amazingly successful independent release, Vanishing Vision. Hikaru, ex-X member, is also featured in the next scene of the movie.

Thanks to Em

Update

"Papaya Paranoia" is also featured in the movie; they're the female-lead band at the beginning of the film as Wendy is getting to Japan.

Rewind Archive

Update

Yutaka Tadokoro can currently be seen in the critically acclaimed Bill Murray film, 'Lost in Translation', playing a commercial director.

Thanks to Frank R.

Update

Carrie Hamilton's final contribution to the arts was the hit play she co-wrote with her mother, "Hollywood Arms".

Add more trivia...

Bogus Trivia

There's often fake stuff floating round, y'know? -Like the 'ghost boy' that can allegedly be seen in "Three Men And A Baby".

But, nothing bogus that we know yet for "Tokyo Pop".

Next: Behind The Scenes

Or use the menu to navigate

1988 Spectrafilm
1999-2020 fast-rewind.com
V4_27 Powered by Rewind C21 CMS