Continuity mistake: When Costas gets pulled over at the beginning of the movie, he stops the car. Initially, between the brick building and the concrete one there's a road with no cars. In Jay Leno's close-up once he is asked "License and registration, please" behind his big head you can see a black and white car, and a couple police officers on the sidewalk. (00:05:00)
Continuity mistake: Fujitsuka's boss passes him 3 pictures. They are all lined up together in the close-up, but in the reverse shot they are spread out. (00:07:00)
Continuity mistake: Police office in Tokyo. Mr. Nakagawa asks Pat Morita how his English is. He had the folder with the material about the case close to his body, elevated, but when he answers, or tries, the folder is placed against the desk. (00:07:15)
Continuity mistake: Oshima, downed by a headbutt, begins to sit up and asks "Where is Mr. Madras?" In the next shot he's down lower and the back of his hand is against the car. When 'Tex' Cobb puts his feed on the hook, his hand is down, but is up again instantly after. (00:08:50)
Continuity mistake: Costas pays (with his pal's money) for the cookies from the kid and signs for sending the whole package to the colleague. As he trips on the boxes, the kid has suddenly straightened the pile he has in his arms. (00:13:35)
Continuity mistake: Pat Morita is searching the room of the deceased Oshima. In a close-up he flips a sheet on top of the one with car schematics, but he's holding the sheets together in the next. (00:19:00)
Continuity mistake: Costas tells the agent that the mysterious person must have gotten out at the mezzanine.The clothing cart meanwhile passes, and its path crosses with a boy with an azure shirt. Wider shot follows, and the guy is still cutting into the path of the clothes valet, but he is in front of the hotel staffer by a significant margin. (00:22:30)
Continuity mistake: Inside Inspector Ryerson's office, Costas picks up the phone. Leno in the close-up is holding the receiver with two hands, one before and after. (00:26:10)
Continuity mistake: Chasing the Japanese detective, Jay Leno enters a mall. He approaches the photo shop hiding his face behind a small balloon, and walks towards the camera. Before the cut, two women move in frame, one wears pink, the other wears blue. Next shot and as he speaks with the girl at the counter the two women are again moving in frame, but they are behind him and starting off from a part of the mall they originally came from. (00:31:25)
Continuity mistake: During the introduction to the press of the 'Starburst' car, Derek Jarryd pushes a button and the curtain rises; it rises well above his shoulders, but in the close-up he is turning around for the camera and the curtain is just then below his breast pocket level. (00:34:15)
Continuity mistake: Madras is having lunch when Derek Jarryd sits at his table and passes him today's paper. He grabs it and holds it by the bottom right corner; in close-up he is holding it mid-page. (00:34:50)
Continuity mistake: In his apartment, Costas pours whiskey for Fujitsuka. When he says "I was a little curious, those photographs." etc, he has still his arm intent on pouring while he had already lifted the bottle at the end of the previous shot. (00:46:50)
Continuity mistake: The two partners have finished the bottle of Chivas; when Leno says "You don't tell me sh*t!", Pat Morita in the close-up has his index higher on the glass (the last 'ring', nearly to the rim) compared to the way he held the same glass in the wider shot. (00:48:25)
Continuity mistake: At the car show, Costas approaches the female host reading the specification of the new vehicle. He flashes her badge and tries his usual pickup line. During the sequence, people with recognizable clothes pass behind him, and they never carry from one view to the next, they just disappear at the cut. (00:53:10)
Continuity mistake: The dynamic duo does a U turn in front of the bowling and parks behind Scully. New shot and the light changes (look at the shadow the car was projecting during the wide shot) and a new car is passing in the street. (00:56:55)
Continuity mistake: When Tex Cobb is facing Pat Morita in the bowling brawl stalking him by the table dividers, Cobb has the right hand raised in guard when seen from the front, but from behind his arm is lowered. (00:59:15)
Continuity mistake: Natsuo and Tony have just exited the bowling alley. Some residual scuffle happens outside, and one guy with a yellow shirt gets up quite stunned. New shot ("My mistake, cos I don't trust you") and the guy is back rolling on the ground. (01:00:40)
Continuity mistake: Conversation across the car out of the bowling place. Costas sarcastically says "Well, with that kind of hard evidence we should get a conviction overnight" and pulls his hands back to open the door. But in the next shot, the hands are still on the car roof and he changes position only after. (01:01:10)
Continuity mistake: When the two unlikely heroes arrive in front of Scully's place, the sun is just below the postbox in the opening shot, but when they are walking to the door, the whole front is in shadow, the sun being behind the house. (01:02:20)
Continuity mistake: At the precinct after the encounter with Madras, Pat Morita tells Jay Leno "You good cop and honorable man." Behind him, Dingman is seated, arm along the armrest, but when the inspector pops out of the office he is already leaning forward and ready to perform the arrest he ill be ordered a couple seconds later. (01:14:20)
