Bison sees the footage and learns of Ken's history with Ryu, and decides to hunt him down and hypnotize him in Ryu's stead. Hawk, who had sought out Ken to challenge him, Ken is seen by a monitor cyborg and the footage of the fight is sent to the Shadowlaw base. Meanwhile, Ryu's American best friend and fighting rival, Ken Masters, has settled down with his girlfriend, Eliza, but still yearns for a good challenge and desires a rematch with Ryu. Honda, remains undetected due to suppressing his Ki. However, Ryu, who is traveling the world to seek out worthy challengers, such as Fei-Long, Dhalsim, and E. At the Shadowlaw base, Bison, along with his bodyguards Balrog, Vega, and Sagat, orders a worldwide manhunt for Ryu, determined to induct him into his organization, and sends out hundreds of monitor cyborgs to find more valuable martial artists for their cause. Bison, for the death of his best friend, initially refuses, but eventually relents when Chun-Li later tells him that Bison killed her father years ago and she herself wants revenge, but knows that her duty comes first. Captain Guile, who is out for revenge against Shadowlaw's leader, M. Sagat vows revenge.Ī couple of years later, following the assassination of a Justice Minister by Cammy, a hypnotized MI6 Agent, Interpol agent Chun-Li suggests that they join forces with the United States Military to destroy the enigmatic crime syndicate known as Shadowlaw. However Ryu claims victory by launching his Hadouken, a technique where he charges his Ki power into his hands and is fired off in the form of a powerful energy blast. In the prologue, a fight between Japanese martial artist Ryu and Muay Thai champion Sagat rages until Ryu severely scars Sagat across the chest with a Shoryuken, a rising uppercut attack that is empowered by ki spiritual energy.
Group TAC later produced another loose adaptation of the Street Fighter II game, the anime series Street Fighter II V. The film was a critical and commercial success. It was distributed by Toei Company in Japan, while 20th Century Fox also distributed in other countries. The film, originally released in Japan on August 6, 1994, was released theatrically in the United Kingdom, France, and Spain, and was adapted into English in dubbed and subtitled format by Animaze for Manga Entertainment. In that spirit, here are 25 facts about what was really going on during the filming of Street Fighter.Street Fighter II: The Animated Movie, known as Street Fighter II Movie ( ストリートファイター II MOVIE, Sutorīto Faitā Tsū Mūbī) in Japan and Australia, is a 1994 anime film adaptation of the Street Fighter II fighting game written by Kenichi Imai, directed by Gisaburō Sugii and animated by Group TAC. On the other hand, inventing a longer story out of thin air means that what little details the game did present to its players was mostly ignored.ĭespite its shortcomings, Street Fighter remains a delightfully camp classic, and the story of what was going on behind the scene is often even better than the movie. Screenwriters had to make up a story to justify the 90 minutes running time. The extended universe we know today did not exist. Having to please two masters, for one, means that the final product has to make some sacrifices: Street Fighter 2 might have had a short backstory, but its existence was driven by action and concept over storytelling. Maybe it was just bad luck? Surely a game with a story tailor-made for an action movie would fare better.Īs everyone attached to the project would soon learn, there are many difficulties that come with making a video games movie. When the decision was made to turn the franchise into a film, only Super Mario Bros had been unlucky enough to be ridiculed by critics and fans alike. That well dried up pretty quickly after the release of one too many stinkers, but Street Fighter: The Movie was a pioneer. Back in the days before “video games movie” became a term nearly synonymous with “box-office bomb”, movie studios were eager to get their hands on the rights to the most popular games of the day, and gaming companies were more than willing to sell.