Connections

Film is analysed

Finito mentions this movie when Jaro tells him that he tells him that this mysterious character's name comes from a famous romans movie

Lucero refers to an older asian as "Miyagi".

During training, Max lifts an engine the same way Rocky does in his training in Russia with rocks.

Finito mentions this movie when Jaro tells him that the name of this mysterious character is Maximus, as the protagonist of Gladiator