Buckaroo Bonzai vs. the World Crime League

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In the closing credits of the film The Adventures of Buckaroo Banzai: Across the 8th Dimension, the viewers are told to look for the next adventure "Buckaroo Banzai vs. The World Crime League". In the DVD release, the deleted opening sequence, where Buckaroo's parents are killed in a test of the prototype Jet Car, mentions the car's sabotage by the League's leader, Hanoi Xan.

There is further mention of the group in the novel adaptation by Earl Mac Rauch, where mention is made of a team of Banzai's associates battling Xan's "Death Dwarves" at sea during the events of the film. Xan is also implicated in the death of Buckaroo's wife, Peggy.

The group and its leader are an obvious literary homage to Sax Rohmer's Fu Manchu.