According to the trivia track on the DVD of The Adventures of Buckaroo Banzai Across the 8th Dimension (1984), his character, Rawhide, did not die but went into a deep coma, and that he was expected to recover very soon.
According to the trivia track on the DVD of The Adventures of Buckaroo Banzai Across the 8th Dimension (1984), his character, Rawhide, did not die but went into a deep coma, and that he was expected to recover very soon.