Quentin Tarantino saw this film while he was working at a movie-rental shop. Years later Tarantino and Kaurismäki were having lunch and Quentin told Mika that Pulp Fiction was heavily influenced by this film.
Altogether six languages are spoken in this movie: besides English, Finnish, and Italian, there's some dialogue in French, Russian, and German.
Matti Pellonpää does a small cameo as a voice of a taxi driver.