| Collision Course | |
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The DVD artwork for Collision Course. |
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| Directed by | Lewis Teague |
| Produced by | Ted Field Robert W. Cort |
| Written by | Frank Darius Namei Robert Resnikoff |
| Starring | Jay Leno Pat Morita Chris Sarandon |
| Music by | Ira Newborn |
| Studio | Interscope Communications |
| Distributed by | HBO Home Video |
| Release date(s) | April 1989 |
| Running time | 100 min. |
| Language | English |
Collision Course is a 1989 action-comedy film starring Jay Leno as a Detroit police officer and Pat Morita as a Japanese cop forced to work together to recover a Japanese turbocharger stolen by villainous Chris Sarandon. It was directed by Lewis Teague and unreleased in the U.S. until 1992, when it debuted on home video. (When Morita guest-starred on The Tonight Show in 1989, with Leno serving as guest host, they recalled that the movie had run out of money on the last day of filming, with key scenes yet to be shot and no budget left for editing and post-production.)
The story plays upon the culture clash between Detroit - whose economy is largely built on the automobile - and Japan - whose export of cars was blamed for Detroit job losses.
Pat Morita - Fujitsuka Natsuo
Jay Leno - Tony Costas
Chris Sarandon - Madras
Tom Noonan - Scully
Dennis Holahan - Derrick Jarryd
Ernie Hudson - Shortcut
John Hancock - Lt. Ryerson
Al Waxman - Dingman
Soon-Tek Oh - Kitao
Randall "Tex" Cobb -Kosnic
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