The Toxic Avenger Part II (1989)

Directors:

Michael Herz
Lloyd Kaufman

Writers:

Lloyd Kaufman (story)
Gay Partington Terry (screenplay) ...
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Release Date:

24 February 1989 (USA)

Genre:

Action | Adventure | Comedy | Horror | Sci-Fi

Tagline:

The first superhero from New Jersey is back!

Plot:

The Toxic Avenger travels to Tokyo to search for his father and leaves his home Tromaville open to complete domination by an evil corporation.

Plot Keywords:

Toxic Avenger | Tokyo Japan | Japan | B Movie | Swing Music

Awards:

1 nomination

Cast

Ron Fazio	...	The Toxic Avenger / Apocalypse Inc. Executive
John Altamura	...	The Toxic Avenger
Phoebe Legere	...	Claire
Rick Collins	...	Apocalypse Inc. Chairman
Rikiya Yasuoka	...	Big Mac Bunko
Tsutomu Sekine	...	Announcer
Mayako Katsuragi	...	Masami
Shinoburyû	...	Shôchikuyama (as Shinoburyu)
Lisa Gaye	...	Malfaire
Jessica Dublin	...	Mrs. Junko
Jack Cooper	...	Big Mac Junko
Erika Schickel	...	Psychiatrist
Bonnie Garvin	...	Bad Girl
Karen King	...	Bad Girl
Didi Mancuso	...	Bad Girl
Melissa Osborne	...	Bad Girl
Helen Wheels	...	Bad Girl
Raven Skye	...	Apprentice Bad Girl
Traci Mann	...	Apprentice Bad Girl
Fernando Antonio	...	Apocalypse Inc. Executive
Paul Borghese	...	Lou Sipher - Apocalypse Inc. Executive
Sylvester Covin	...	Apocalypse Inc. Executive
William Decker	...	Apocalypse Inc. Executive
Joe Fleishaker	...	Apocalypse Inc. Executive
Mark Fucile	...	Apocalypse Inc. Executive
Marc Allan Ginsberg	...	Apocalypse Inc. Executive
Sal Lioni	...	Apocalypse Inc. Executive
Doug McDonald	...	Apocalypse Inc. Executive
Benny Nieves	...	Apocalypse Inc. Executive
Kariim Ratcliff	...	Apocalypse Inc. Executive
Michael Jai White	...	Apocalypse Inc. Executive (as Michael White)
Susan Whitty	...	Apocalypse Inc. Executive
Jeremiah Yates	...	Apocalypse Inc. Executive
Dan Snow	...	Cigar Face
Andrew Wolk	...	Pus Man
Florence Gummersbach	...	Homeless Couple
Eric Alan	...	Homeless Couple
Félix Cortés	...	Taxi Driver
Bill Ferris	...	Senior Citizen in Taxi
Irene Scase Summerville	...	Senior Citizen in Taxi
Alex Cserhart	...	Environmentalist
Theresa Faw	...	Environmentalist
Michael Drummer	...	Apocalypse Inc. Thug
John Mollica	...	Apocalypse Inc. Thug
Tom Harting	...	Apocalypse Inc. Thug (as Thomas Harding)
Bryan Perkins	...	Apocalypse Inc. Thug / First Messenger
Roy Sundance	...	Apocalypse Inc. Thug
William E. Benson	...	Father O'Reilly (as W.E. Benson)
Keith Allen	...	Second Messenger
Elliot Weiss	...	Dog Face
Emmy Meyer	...	Mrs. Beasley
Michael Leoce	...	Police Officer
Matt Miller	...	Police Officer
Phil Rivo	...	Cookie
Arthur M. Jolly	...	Blind Choris Singer (as Arthur Jolly)
Frank Kramer	...	Blind Choris Singer
Carol Mazzei	...	Blind Choris Singer
Doug Wright	...	Blind Choris Singer
Charlotte Kaufman	...	Blind Baby
Lisbeth Kaufman	...	Toxic Child
Lily Hayes Kaufman	...	Toxic Child
Patricia Kaufman	...	Diaper Changer
Sloane Herz	...	Tromaville Teeny Bopper
Anthony Caputo	...	Apocalypse Inc. Employee
Darel Chase	...	Apocalypse Inc. Employee
Kevin Colby	...	Apocalypse Inc. Employee
Lorna Courtney	...	Apocalypse Inc. Employee
Ron Goldberg	...	Apocalypse Inc. Employee
Alexis Grey	...	Apocalypse Inc. Employee
Kayko Kawamoto	...	Apocalypse Inc. Employee
Chris McNamee	...	Apocalypse Inc. Employee
Louie Ortiz	...	Apocalypse Inc. Employee
Tony Peters	...	Apocalypse Inc. Employee
John Reidy	...	Apocalypse Inc. Employee
Ray Seiden	...	Apocalypse Inc. Employee (as Raymond Seiden)
Lily Smith	...	Apocalypse Inc. Employee
Valentine Smith	...	Apocalypse Inc. Employee
Richard Sparks	...	Apocalypse Inc. Employee
Tom Vigarito	...	Apocalypse Inc. Employee
Paul Weatherbee	...	Apocalypse Inc. Employee
Jim Woyt	...	Apocalypse Inc. Employee
Orentha Alava	...	Tromaville Resident
Anne Charbonneau	...	Tromaville Resident
Lori Corby	...	Tromaville Resident
Kathleen Footer	...	Tromaville Resident
Julie Fried	...	Tromaville Resident
Jennifer Furillo	...	Tromaville Resident
David Glover	...	Tromaville Resident
David Greenspan	...	Tromaville Resident
Robert Hoffer	...	Tromaville Resident
Robert Hoffer Jr.	...	Tromaville Resident
Beverly Irish	...	Tromaville Resident
Don Kaplan	...	Tromaville Resident
Glenn Keet	...	Tromaville Resident
Lisa Kuzman	...	Tromaville Resident
William Leone	...	Tromaville Resident
Robert Libby Jr.	...	Tromaville Resident
Ted Lyon	...	Tromaville Resident
Larry Mardany	...	Tromaville Resident
Domenick Mastrianna	...	Tromaville Resident
Cariann Mazzei	...	Tromaville Resident
Carol Morrissey	...	Tromaville Resident
J.W. Sass	...	Tromaville Resident
Karen Silvernail	...	Tromaville Resident
Susan Slutsky	...	Tromaville Resident
Myron Smith	...	Tromaville Resident
Debi Staron	...	Tromaville Resident
John Stern	...	Tromaville Resident
Harry Williams Jr.	...	Tromaville Resident
Steven Young	...	Tromaville Resident
Maya Shiraki	...	Chain-Sickle Girl
Yôko Ohshima	...	Bad Girl
Kenji Nara	...	Taiyaki Nose Man
Kenji Nakajima	...	Cow Boy
Takayuki Arafuka	...	Sumo Wrestler
Ôfuji	...	Sumo Wrestler
Hidenori Takahashi	...	Sumo Wrestler
Masahiro Ishii	...	Sumo Wrestler
Kei Nakada	...	Sumo Wrestler
Yutaka Kondo	...	Sumo Wrestler
Tadayuki Sugiyama	...	Sumo Wrestler
Hiroyuki Matsuya	...	Sumo Wrestler
Eiji Kobayashi	...	Twin Oni Demon
Yûji Kobayashi	...	Twin Oni Demon
Yoshikazu Fukunaga	...	Villain
Yasutaka Tezuka	...	Villain
Wataru Tsukada	...	Villain
Satoshi Morioka	...	Villain
Yasuhiro Tanogashira	...	Villain
Toshimi Yamaguchi	...	Villain
Wataru Fukuda	...	Villain
Yoshiko Nagashima	...	Villain
Kazumi Kanebako	...	Yakuza at Pachinko
Shunsaku Nakayama	...	Shark Skin Man
Nao Kotetsu	...	Master of Fish Store
Masao Machitani	...	Fish Cutter
Yoshiaki Okuten	...	Kabuki Actor
Masaharu Fujiyoshi	...	Black Dressed Actor
Saburô Isobe	...	Businessman
Masanori Sato	...	Businessman
Ichirô Yamanaka	...	Bald Man
Gô Nagai	...	Tsukudani Expert
Sayuri Niida	...	Sweeping Woman
Akiyo Ôshima	...	Sweeping Woman
Isamu Gosha	...	Man at Asakusa Temple
Katsuyuki Sato	...	Authority at Temple
Satoe Nanaki	...	DJ Girl
Masamori Kanbe	...	Taiyaki Baker
Morikazu Kanbe	...	Taiyaki Baker
Daisuke Katô	...	Person at Odaiba Beach
Ziko Uchiyama	...	Person at Odaiba Beach (as Jiiko Uchiyama)
Yôko Kuriki	...	Person at Odaiba Beach
Wataru Ohashi	...	Person at Odaiba Beach
Hiroshi Mitsui	...	Person at Odaiba Beach
Toyoko Kunisawa	...	Bathing Woman
Keiko Kano	...	Bathing Woman
Hitomi Tawara	...	Bathing Woman
Shizuka Mukai	...	Bathing Woman
Masayoshi Hosokawa	...	Bathing Man
Makoto Fukutomi	...	Bathing Man
Takeshi Takimoto	...	Bathing Man
Kazumasa Suzuki	...	Bathing Man
Wasaburô Nakamura	...	Bathing Man
Sora Yamada	...	Bathing Man
Masaaki Fukawa	...	Bathing Man
Hideki Sonoda	...	Bathing Man
Sonoda Hideki	...	Bathing Man
rest of cast listed alphabetically:
Joe Tom Collins	...	Biker (uncredited)
Michael Gingold	...	Tromaville Resident (uncredited)
Michael Herz	...	Big Mac Bunko (voice) (uncredited)
Lloyd Kaufman	...	Sumo Wrestler / Fish Salesman (voice) (uncredited)
Jan Owen	...	Extra (uncredited)

Directed by
Michael Herz
Lloyd Kaufman

Writing credits
Lloyd Kaufman		(story)
Gay Partington Terry		(screenplay) &
Lloyd Kaufman		(screenplay)
Pericles Lewnes		(additional material) &
Fumio Furuya		(additional material) (as Fumio Furuyo) &
Yoshiko Miyamoto		(additional material) &
Andrew Wolk		(additional material) &
Phil Rivo		(additional material)
Joe Ritter		characters (uncredited)

Produced by
Michael Herz	....	producer
Lloyd Kaufman	....	producer
Jeffrey W. Sass	....	associate producer

Original Music by
Barrie Guard

Cinematography by
James A. Lebovitz		(as James London)

Film Editing by
Michael Schweitzer

Casting by
Phil Rivo

Production Design by
Alexis Grey

Art Direction by
Alexis Grey

Costume Design by
Susan Douglas

Makeup Department
Timothy Considine	....	special animal makeup
Yoichi Fukuoka	....	special makeup artist: Japan
Joel Harlow	....	special makeup effects
Roy Knyrim	....	key gore effects artist
Jerry Macaluso	....	special makeup effects
Kathy Mulshine	....	hair / makeup
Mayumi Shoji	....	hair / makeup: Japan
Noboru Tamura	....	special makeup artist: Japan

Production Management
Tetsu Fujimura	....	executive in charge of production: Japan
Binbun Furusawa	....	production manager: Japan
Michael Leoce	....	assistant production manager
Jeffrey W. Sass	....	production manager

Second Unit Director or Assistant Director
Kazuo Ito	....	first assistant director: Japan
William Jennings	....	first assistant director
Tomohiro Kagawa	....	fourth assistant director: Japan
Pericles Lewnes	....	second unit director
Phil Rivo	....	third unit director
Vidette Schine	....	fourth unit director
Ten Shimoyama	....	third assistant director: Japan
Takaaki Takeuchi	....	second assistant director: Japan
Andrew Wolk	....	second assistant director
Andrew Wolk	....	second unit director

Art Department
Todd Ashley	....	carpenter
Dominic Dias	....	assistant scenic artist
Fumio Furuya	....	creative designer: Japan
George Giordano	....	weapons handler
Jane Harrison	....	property master
Stefan Harshman	....	construction supervisor
Frank Kramer	....	associate art director
Matt Miller	....	scenic artist
Hajime Oikawa	....	art director: Japan
Douglas Wright	....	associate art director

Sound Department
Jonathan Berman	....	assistant sound editor
Taku Iwasa	....	sound assistant: Japan
Deane Johnson	....	assistant sound editor
Yoshiaki Kitahara	....	sound assistant: Japan
Joseph McGirr	....	supervising sound editor
Daniel Moss	....	boom operator
Dave Ouimet	....	sound effects: digital growl effects
Nicole Ruffine	....	assistant sound editor
Sekou Shepard	....	sound mixer: Japan

Special Effects by
Dawn Bradford	....	special effects assistant
Wilfred Caban	....	pyrotechnician
Timothy Considine	....	special effects coordinator: Japan
William Decker	....	special effects makeup (as William L. Decker)
George Giordano	....	special atmospheric effects
Kelly Gleason	....	special effects makeup
Kenny Lee Hamel	....	projectionist
Arthur M. Jolly	....	special effects makeup (as Arthur Jolly)
Pericles Lewnes	....	special effects coordinator
Satoshi Narumi	....	special effects operator: Japan

Stunts
Robert Amico	....	stunts
Cleo Ferris	....	stunts
Regina Franchi	....	stunts
Scott Leva	....	stunt coordinator
William J. McVey III	....	stunts (as Bill McVey)
Scott Rhodes	....	assistant stunt coordinator
Scott Rhodes	....	stunts
Peter Rocca	....	stunts
David Tatosian	....	stunts
Geoffrey Scott Wilde	....	stunts
Steve Wolf	....	stunts

Camera and Electrical Department
Robert Aguirre	....	second assistant camera
Thomas Arnoldi	....	third electrician
Gail Bennet	....	camera operator
Steve Berger	....	still photographer
Michael A. Broz	....	second assistant camera (as Michael Broz)
Rick Bruck	....	rigging grip
Leni Calabrese	....	still photographer
Andrea Dormand	....	first assistant camera
Mary Eiben	....	second assistant camera
Joe Foley	....	third grip (as Joseph Foley)
Kenny Lee Hamel	....	second assistant camera
Toru Hatakeyama	....	third assistant camera: Japan
Timothy Healy	....	swing
Klaus Hoch	....	gaffer (as Klaus Guinn)
Hiromi Kato	....	gaffer: Japan
Takeshi Kato	....	second assistant camera: Japan
Lloyd Kaufman	....	camera operator
John Kelly	....	key grip
Taisei Konishi	....	first assistant camera: Japan
Michael J. Latino	....	first assistant camera (as Michael Latino)
James A. Lebovitz	....	director of photography: Japan (as James London)
Deborah Lipman	....	second assistant camera (as Debbie Lipman)
Kiyoshi Matsumoto	....	second assistant gaffer: Japan
Jamie Maxtone-Graham	....	camera operator
Theo Pingarelli	....	first assistant camera (as Theodore Pingarelli)
John Pirozzi	....	second grip
Greg Rosinsky	....	best boy (as Gregg Rosinsky)
Ron Schlaeger	....	camera operator: second unit
Tom Selman	....	camera operator
Mark Serman	....	camera operator
Yasutoshi Shimizu	....	first assistant gaffer: Japan
Irene Sosa	....	first assistant camera
Neal Spencer	....	first assistant camera
Hiroshi Tanabe	....	third assistant gaffer: Japan
Heather White	....	first assistant camera

Casting Department
Kenji Haga	....	casting coordinator: Japan
Craig Hamilton	....	casting assistant
Manny Mackeral	....	fly casting

Costume and Wardrobe Department
Yuichi Ishikawa	....	wardrobe: Japan
Maud Kersnowski	....	wardrobe assistant
Utako Koguchi	....	wardrobe: Japan
Eriko Tsuchiya	....	wardrobe: Japan

Editorial Department
Andrew Hafitz	....	assistant editor
Bob Lemchen	....	assistant editor (as Robert Lemchen)
Sue Malfitano	....	assistant editor (as Susan Malfitano)
Joseph McGirr	....	assistant editor
Dave Ouimet	....	assistant editor

Transportation Department
Richard Demaree	....	transportation captain

Other crew
Kimie Akiyama	....	assistant interpreter
Eric Alan	....	production assistant (as Eric 'Zork' Alan)
Chanan Beizer	....	production assistant
Kevin Colby	....	production assistant
Andy Fair	....	production assistant
Hitoshi Genma	....	action coordinator: technical crew in Japan
Ron Goldberg	....	production office manager
Craig Hamilton	....	craft service
Dino Hartofilis	....	production assistant
Maris Herz	....	administrative executive
Tatsuya Ishikawa	....	location manager: Japan
Patricia Kaufman	....	administrative executive
Misako Kikuchi	....	interpreter
Lisa Kuzman	....	production assistant
Michael Leoce	....	location executive
Michael Leoce	....	location manager: second unit
Mary McCormick	....	location manager
Frederick Mett	....	production assistant
Yoshiko Miyamoto	....	production coordinator: Japan
Toshi Miyashita	....	assistant production coordinator: Japan
Carl Morano	....	production executive
Carl Morano	....	production office manager
David Morris	....	production assistant
Kathy Mulshine	....	production assistant
Isao Nakagawa	....	second assistant location manager: Japan
Louie Ortiz	....	production assistant
Alexandra Pratt	....	production office manager
Kariim Ratcliff	....	wrestling coordinator (as Karim Ratcliff)
Sylvia B. Ross	....	equine services
Craig Wallace	....	production assistant
Scott Walter	....	toxic avenger windsurfer
Rick Washburn	....	weapons coordinator
Eiji Watanabe	....	first assistant location manager: Japan
Michael Jai White	....	assistant wrestling coordinator (as Michael White)
Terry Woods	....	script supervisor

Production Companies

• Troma Entertainment

Distributors

• Beam Entertainment (Japan) (DVD producer)
• Creative Axa Co. Ltd. (Japan) (DVD)
• Stomp Visual (2005) (Australia) (DVD)
• Troma Entertainment
• Warner Home Video (1989) (USA) (VHS)

Other Companies

• AAA-1  special thanks to
• Apple & Eve  thank you
• Aquarius Transformations  sound trasfers by
• Batchman Company  thank you
• Be-Neu  thank you
• Bob Bookless  thank you
• Bonton Snacks  thank you
• Buchanan Engine Company  special thanks to
• C&C Cola  thank you
• Camp Smith  special thanks to
• City of New York Department of General Services Division of Public Structures, The  special thanks to
• City of Peekskill, New York  special thanks to
• Cortlandt Community Volunteer Ambulance Corps  special thanks to
• Croton Ambulance Corps  special thanks to
• Croton Volunteer Fire Department  special thanks to
• Dependable Tree Service  thank you
• EFX Unlimited  optical effects
• Entenmann's Bakery  thank you
• Filmtrax  music produced by
• GAGA  production supervision in japan (uncredited)
• Garrison Garage  thank you
• General Camera Corporation  camera equipment provided by
• Grass Man's  thank you
• Hatch's Service Station  thank you
• High Light  thank you
• Igloo  thank you
• Imagica  thank you
• Industrial Recycling Systems  thank you
• Janet Associates  thank you
• Joyce Leslie  thank you
• Kelly Construction  special thanks to
• Koji Honpo  thank you
• Liberty State Park  special thanks to
• Manhattan Special Bottling  thank you
• Messina Bros. Manufacturing  thank you
• Minolta  thank you
• Mom's Taxi  thank you
• Nac  thank you
• New Jersey Motion Picture and Television Commission  special thanks to
• New York City Mayor's Office for Motion Picture Production, The  special thanks to
• New York State Governor's Office for Motion Picture & Television Development  special thanks to
• Nippon Broadcasting System  thank you
• On-A-Bagel  thank you
• Peekskill Fitness Center  thank you
• Peekskill Volunteer Ambulance  special thanks to
• Pro Camera  electric equipment provieded by
• Publicist Planners  publicist: Japan
• Puburic Bath  thank you
• Sailboards of Long Island  thank you
• Scat Hovercraft  hovercraft provided by
• Sonny's Auto Parts  vehicles provided by
• Sorrentos Restaurant  thank you
• Sound One  sound mixed at
• St. Augustine's Episcopal Church  special thanks to
• TVC Laboratory  color by
• Tara Limousine  thank you
• Tokyo Costumes Company  thank you
• Tokyo Costumes Company  wardrobe: Japan
• Troma  production service by
• Tsukuda  thank you
• USA Wet  thank you
• Village of Buchanan, New York  special thanks to
• Village of Croton-on-the Hudson  special thanks to
• Vision World  thank you
• Watergate Motor Hotel  thank you
• Zipkin's Equipment Center  thank you

Also Known As:

"Akuma no dokudoku monster: Tôkyô e yuku" - Japan
"Atomic Hero 2" - West Germany
"El vengador tóxico 2" - Spain (imdb display title)
"Il vendicatore tossico 2" - Italy
"The Toxic Avenger II" - Norway (short title)
"Toxic Avenger II" - Finland
"Toxic le ravageur" - France (video title)

Runtime:

96 min | Norway:102 min (Unrated Director's Cut) | USA:103 min (unrated version)

Country:

USA

Language:

English | Japanese | Russian

Color:

Color (TVC)

Aspect Ratio:

1.33 : 1

Sound Mix:

Mono

Certification:

New Zealand:R16 | Singapore:(Banned) | Spain:13 | Norway:15 (director's cut) | Sweden:15 | France:-16 | USA:Unrated (director's cut) | Australia:R (director's cut) | Finland:K-18 | USA:R | West Germany:18 | UK:18 | Australia:MA (re-rating)

Filming Locations:

Croton-on-Hudson, New York, USA

Company:

Troma Entertainment

Trivia:

John Altamura was fired during production according to Llyod Kaufman and Ron Fazio for "abusing his authority". Ron Fazio, who plays an executive of Apokalypse Inc., was originally asked to only to be the Toxic Avenger's distant shot double . However, after Altamura's dismissal, Fazio was asked to play the part and provide the character's voice. Producers kept the scenes with John Altamura, hence both men are credited with the title role.

Quotes:

[Toxie is fighting a thug, when suddenly a beeping is heard. The thug checks his watch]
Thug:Lucky for you I've got a piano lesson!

Movie Connections:

References Apocalypse Now (1979)

Soundtrack:

Toxic Avenger Theme Song

Not as good as the first but still awesome fun!

The Toxic Avenger is a hilarious, fun, gory and exciting picture that really has it all. I didn't hear a lot of good things about the second tale of Toxie which was really bad to hear. Most of this negative attitude was centered around the "unrated" DVD that was actually heavily edited. Luckily the one I got was the true Director's Cut that ran around 106 minutes. This one had pretty much everything the first one had but the main thing that annoyed me was the change of actors. It just wasn't the same, the actors from the first weren't good but they brought a charm to the characters.

The plot in this one is crazier than that of the first. This time The Toxic Avenger is lured into Tokyo, Japan by Apocalypse Inc. While he is fighting crime in Tokyo Apocalypse Inc. is reeking havoc in Tromaville. As usual, it's up to Toxie to save the day.

The "unrated" version, as talked about before, apparently omits all the gore. And boy, there's a lot of it. We see plenty of great, gory stuff like intestines getting blown out of a guy's stomach from severe wheelchair trauma, roses being shoved into a man's eyes, someone getting chopped into sushi and much, much more. And the effects are actually really good.

Please, don't go into this seriously, take your brain out and watch it. It's a lot of fun and it should please Troma fans and gorehounds alike! 3/5.