Funny thing is I realized as a adult I had seen 3 versions I grew up watching the fully edited version very light cursing then I saw the basic edit more cursing yet only side boob in the shower this version replaces heavier curse words into lighter curse words bison says idgad instead of idgaf for example then there is the full version and it has full boobies and extreme cursing
One of his first ever acting role was in an anime movie called Galaxy Express 999 back in 1980. A lot of famous Hollywood actors' first role was actually anime. Shia LaBeouf (Nausicaa), Daisy Ridley (Only Yesterday), Kirsten Dunst (Kiki's Delivery Service), and many more. They actually got their start in anime.
Guile's car is a '66 Shelby GT350 dude! Super iconic American car and (I think) suits Guile right down to the ground... even though he REALLY doesn't look after it!
It’s crazy how influential this film (and to a lesser extent the live action film) was on the series. Bison hypnotizing fighters and bending them to his will started with these two films, and was adopted into the games.
References big (The Entire Alpha Series, creation of Brainwashed Ken. Bison's redesign.) and small (Zangief and Cammy cape intros, Cammy neck break, Dramatic Battles.)
Also his more beefier look. Same with Sagat. He was a skinny guy sorta but really tall in sf2, in this he's a giant mountain of muscle. Ken kinda got treated like crap here but at least got a W over Hawk and if you count, against Bison at the end. In alpha it was even worse.
In Japanese, special moves (including fighting game ones) are called "hisastuwaza", and the kanji/ideograms used to write it literally mean "technique that is certain to kill". ...I thought it was relevant to your conversation at the beginning to point that out. The Japanese pretty much have their brain set up (by their own language) for the "my new secret technique wins the fight in one blow" trope. XD
40:55 Guile and Chun-Li go to Los Angeles, not New York City. That’s what’s written on the screen in Japanese. That may explain how Guile was able to get to Seattle so quickly, lol.
That Ken & Ryu combo attack with the tatsu into the shoryuken into the air and ground hadoken was reused as a tag team super in Rival Schools (Justice Gakuen) by Hideo and Kyoko.
Fun story. I think in 7th or 8th grade, my friend had the Van Dam movie on VHS and he was letting everyone borrow it. I wanted to borrow it, but when I asked, he told me another friend had it. He told me whether I would like to borrow the animated movie instead. Disappointed, I borrowed it as a way to tie me over until the live action movie returned. I was blown away by it. When I finally saw the Van Dam movie, I was like WTF is this shit? The animated movie was better. I saw it uncensored and subtitled.
When talking about the violence in the movie, you have to remenber that original games were inspired by just as violent shonen manga. None of the violence in this movie would be out of place in Hokuto no Ken, Saint Seiya or Jojo.
Still have my VHS copy. I always thought it was arranged how the cyborgs were supposed to be infiltration units but stood out like cyborgs. A ball cap wouldn’t hide the half metal face, glowing single red eye with a glowing single white eye.
I watched this when bootlegs were in. Any store that sold imports had this. Best $20 I spent, plus it was letterboxed, I love fan subs. I think the Chun-Li shower scene was everyone's favorite back then. The battle between Balrog/Vega and Chun-Li was also top tier. Talk about nostalgic memories, I can't believe it's been 3 decades.
16:47 The DVD you're referring to was released by Manga Entertainment in 2006. It was technically a re-release since the original 90s DVD & VHS tapes were put out English-only by a division of Sony Music in the US.
1:15:40 Fun fact: Both Alpha anime were western co-productions (with Manga being the co-producer) and Generations didn't even get a DVD release in Japan until 4 years after the US as a bonus DVD with their release of The Legend of Chun-Li.
Bison was the most powerful he had ever been in all of the lore. He could've defeated anyone on that film, but he just had to do Martial Arts against two of the most Martial Arts guys in the world, lol
To his credit, he was still holding on well. It was because Ken grabbed his legs while he was down that he took damage he wasn't able to come back from.
It's just like in the movie "The Faculty". The queen had the whole town and school under control, but she just had to keep the last handful of students around for herself. She could've easily let her minions take care of them.
22:22 Sluffing off "Sluffing has multiple meanings: Loose snow avalanche, non cohesive snow falling down a slope. Truancy, absence from schooling. Sluffing (cards), playing cards of little or no value in a card game." I'mma assume it's the truancy one in this case. :P
This is definitely the Real Battle On Film. Also, because of the dub version of this film i learned that Japanese fighters stick together CUZ WE'RE BROTHERS! AHHHH HAHA HAA.
I still have my VHS from this masterpiece from back in 1996, it came on a bundle with the Fatal Fury anime movie, i saw both movies 3 or 4 times a week, i was so addicted for both franchises!!
I love the original Japanese version of the Street Fighter II Movie. The Japanese version music seems much more fitting, and the voice acting is powerful and more emotive than the American version
I kinda liked the Japanese soundtrack better than the domestic release. I'm probably just biased because the Japanese version was the first one I saw. I especially liked the song that played when Chun Li fought Vega.
Fun Fact: In the Street Fighter II game, my favorite music genre was originally 80s glory-medal music. Kinda like what you hear in Top Gun, Rocky IV and No Retreat, No Surrender. But in the OVA, they modernized it for 1994 by turning my favorite music genre into Grunge-Rock such as Korn, Silverchair and Alice In Chains.
I have memories of watching Street Fighter II MOVIE back in the early 2000s at my grandparents house. They showed it on Cartoon Network, who also used to broadcast the anime series and the U.S cartoon. One cool detail about that is that all of 3 Street Fighter animated projects shared the same voice cast, since they were dubbed in the same recording studio in Colombia, though there was an alternate Neutral Spanish dub made in Mexico in which M. Bison was dubbed by the same VA who dubbed Raúl Julia in the live-action movie and many years later dubbed Bison in the anime Hi-Score Girl I have to say that it's incredible how this movie has such an impact on the Street Fighter universe, especially in the Alpha series or how now Cammy has a Super Movie in SF6 based on a scene from this movie, not to mention that her new look seems based on her appearance from SFII V
the Brazilian dub shown on CN was so horrible it's funny.It was recorded in Los Angeles by an amateur cast not used with dubbing or voicing major productions and it shows(same dude played Ken,Vega,Fei Long and over half of the extras doing the exact same voice...). It's infamous among fans not only for its quality but also due to being lost media and no footage of it has been found to this day. Thankfully,there was a much better dub for the VHS release,using most of the cast that did the dubs for the live action movie,2 V anime,and the U.S cartoon
The main impact the anime movie had is that I've always felt that every iteration of Sagat in the games since has been too small. It also made me always want Sagat to have a super version of Tiger Shot since it looks so good in the anime. The movie's got peak Sagat design at the very least.
I had the original VHS and I’m convinced I had a version that didn’t have the Alice In Chains or any of the other rock music. I was only allowed to watch if I fast-forwarded the shower scene. I’m 🌈 now so jokes on my parents, that scene would have no effect on me anyway
I remember finding this in a comic shop just after i got my first job on DVD. I was looking for more Dragonball because i didn't know what 'anime' was yet, so the person there told me to get this, Ghost in the Shell and Ninja Scroll... which blew my mind. I was never the same again.
One other thing that's worth bearing in mind: There was literally only so much they could do with the budget they had to fill 100 minutes with PEAK animation. There's obviously a lot of moments in the movie that leave you wanting more in terms of showcasing characters and deep-diving into lore and rivalries and stuff like that. You kinda have to remind yourself, for the era this movie came out and for the budget they had, this was TOP TIER animation, and it had it's limits. In some ways, it's probably much harder to make an animated film back then than it was to make one in live action. This was well before CG animation technology had developed as far as today. This was the same year the original Toy Story came out, after all. Most of this animation was still being drawn and painted BY HAND. By necessity, they had to narrow their focus onto the aspects they thought were most important. Chiefly, the relationship between Ken & Ryu, Bison driving a wedge between them with his Psycho power mind control, and the two of them eventually teaming up again to take him out. A lot of stuff has to take a backseat to tell that story, so they had to make the most of what little moments they could to showcase the supporting cast. Heck, even a character as important as Guille kinda has to play second fiddle through the whole movie. Guille doesn't even get a truly kick-ass fight scene to showcase him, so he's almost worse off than Chunners in that regard. But even if the movie does leave you wanting more, it DELIVERS on what it brings to the table with aplomb. That's a big part of why it still holds up 30 years later.There was literally only so much they could do with the budget they had to fill 100 minutes with PEAK animation.
It's absolutely WILD that Chun-li has a shower scene, showing T&A, in a VERY PG-13 franchise, and it's NEVER happened again, Cammy and Juri push the boundaries, but we've never got a surprise like that ever again. Moments in history right there, even Mortal Kombat hasn't gotten there, and the closets was Sonya's shear t-shirt in MK vs. DC, AND THAT WAS T RATED! WHAT THE HELL?! lol
The funny thing about the Chun-Li shower scene is that it actually ISN'T just gratuitous T&A. It actually serves a purpose in the looming tension that builds to the Vega fight scene, with the creeping voyeurism of the sequence ramping up to convey the sense of a predator closing in on its unsuspecting prey at its most vulnerable. It is, in a sense, employing the same techniques used by Hitchcock in his famous shower scene in Psycho. The gratuitous T&A is just a delicious cherry on top of a lavishly constructed sundae.
Justin bringing up Ryu and Ken training as an anime made me immediately think of the next thing you should cover on fighting game theater, matt. GET READY FOR A NEW CHALLENGER! Street Fighter: Assassin's Fist!
... so Fei Long is two of Rita Repulsa's monsters, got it. 😂 (Yes, I know he was Zordon in the reboot movie too, but his MMPR TV work was closer to this timewise.)
this is why we have Street Figther V that does a better job at story telling with ken and Ryu on their journey especially learning their special moves.
Guile is the biggest wet fart in this movie, but he does manage to damage Bison's cape with the sonic boom (you can see the cape is torn when Bison shows up after it)
Well, at least when the sonic boom cuts that house in half I thought it was coolest thing I had ever seen, if I'm not mistaken I think I saw this even before Dragon Ball Z so I had never seen this kinda of op stuff
Dear Matt and Justin, The Shadowlaw\NWO reference @18:05 was BRILLIANT! I popped hard to that and in retrospect makes so much sense now. (can potentially be applied to The Judgement Day now, too with Metalingus - "The Other Side") I've played that clip so many times in this vid since then. Fave bit by FAR!! 👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾 Well done for this video. Probs shamelessly considered niche by now, but still the GOAT!!
“Itoshisa to Setsunasa to Kokoro Zuyosa to” is a god-tier song. I don’t think I can ever imagine this movie without it. The fact that it was re-recorded for SF6 makes the devs true marks, and I love them for it.
I remember saving up and having my dad use his eBay account to win an auction for VHS copy. Turned out to certainly be a bootleg copy, but I certainly enjoyed it!
Bro I was brought up on those bootleg vhs stores. I grew up in New York city in the late 80s and thought the 90s. I also got dbz tapes with Japanese commercials on them too. Still subtitled tho! The 90s were wild to get anime. I tell my kids now all the time how great it is to have everything at our fingertips. We're gods!
Bison's plan here is so weird. He wants an army of skilled fighters instead of tanks or bombs. Among fighting game movie adaptations, DOA is the only one where the villain's plan makes sense. Donovan hosts a tourney to record everyone's moves and sell their skills to anyone who wants to learn for a hefty payday. That makes sense.
I’m not a huge fighting game fan, but I’ve always admired the art and characters of Street Fighter as a series. It’s one of the things that got me interested in art as a kid. I kinda wish we had a game set in the street fighter world, but that was a 3D adventure brawler. Something like Sunset overdrive mixed with the Dragon’s Dogma, but again in the Street Fighter Universe. I want themed areas, big boss reveals, a banging soundtrack, and festive visuals. Honestly, art wise, I think Capcom is probably my favorite video game company out of all of them. There is something about their style, man.
In regards to wanting a new animated a few years back there was actually a pitch for a Street Fighter animated series called Warriors Dawn, by a guy who was an episode director for Batman The Animated Series, Last Airbender and Legend of Korra (for people who don't like Korra's story he was only an episode director he didn't dictate the story). Apparently it nearly got made and would have been animated by Studio Mir (in their usual art style).
One of the first anime films I ever watched back in, what, 94, 95? And yeah, I saw the uncensored version with the 90's grunge/metal soundtrack right out the gate. The studio that animated this movie put their WHOLE ASS into the production. Still holds up as a classic. The Vega/Chun-Li sequence is just perfect cinema in every respect. Too bad the Alpha movie is a POS. Beautifully animated, but a POS nonetheless. Haven't seen Alpha Generations, but didn't sound like it was much better either.
I watched this movie a ridiculous amount of times back on VHS (and it was the Manga Video UK version so it had the US dub/music AND the uncut parts including the shower scene). It's still easily my fave video game movie and probably my fave looks for most of the Street Fighter characters too. They look great in this style. Also... KMFDM's Ultra to Chun-Li and Vega fighting is just the best! Also I bought that Jada Toys Fei Long action figure a few weeks ago and refer to it as a Bryan Cranston action figure just to see which of my friends understood the reference. :P
Matt: "Why is cyborg so sexy?" Fun fact: The character designer for Street Fighter 2 the Movie is Shuko Murase, a veteran animator in Japanese animation. His next design job after this movie was for Gundam Wing--so he went from designing huge, over-muscled sexy men to designing pretty, twink sexy boys.😂
It’s the greatest video game movie of all time & one of the greatest OVAs ever made. A movie so influential that it set the tone for SF Alpha & beyond. 30 years, man time goes by fast
This is one of my favourite anime ova movies still to this day up there with Guyver Bio booster armour, Urotsukidoji legend of the overfiend, Cyber City OEDO 808, Dominion Tank Police, Akira, Robot Carnival and Ninja Scroll are my top animes from then and still to this day 🥰
My first memory of this movie was in a JC Penny. Back in the day, they had a small electronics section with demo kiosks for SNES and Genesis demos. They had the movie playing behind ymthe counter. I must've been there the first time they showed it, cuz I got to see Chun Li in the shower. At a JC Penny. In the mall. Lol! They fast forwarded last that scene the next time I was there
The golden rule for fighting game anime predates fighting games because it came from the series they were based on. About half of all fighting game concepts can be traced back to '80s Shonen Jump. Special moves are literally called sure-kill moves in Japan and had to be watered down for gameplay reasons.
This animated movie is the best adaptation of the Street Fighter II game! The only ones that come close in quality and superb art style are Street Fighter Alpha The Animation, Street Fighter Alpha Generations even though these two were more about the Street Fighter Alpha games and also the live action Street Fighter Assassin's Fist! The Street Fighter II V series was also pretty good.
I saw this movie again a couple years ago, after having seen it as a kid. I remembered the Chun-Li shower scene, of course, but I was not prepared for just how intensely gay Ryu and Ken are for each other. Especially in the scene where Ken is driving in his car, makes a half-assed proposal to Eliza, and, upon her noncommittal response, immediately flashes back to the time in his youth when Ryu was cut on the forehead during an intense, sweaty sparring session. Ken bent over to tend to his wound, and they looked each other intensely in the eyes as they tenderly touched each other's faces. He is so distracted by this thought that he nearly slams into a semi-truck. I think she knew his heart wasn't in it, especially since he has to be reminded what they were talking about. Their romance is the clear throughline of the film, insofar as it even has one. The final fight scene especially. The whole first part of the fight until Ken finally breaks his conditioning is just generally slashy as hell. Only their "friendship" is strong enough to defeat Bison. I would hesitate to even call it subtext it's so unsubtle, but given the edgy 90s hetero vibe the rest of the movie gives off I honestly think that somehow it was unintentional.
Guile drives a ford mustang 😂 Also i always thought that Chun Li might have lost a lot of blood during that fight, i mean Vega has a pretty big claw and she gets sliced on the chest, i can imagine it being pretty deep and thats why the fight takes a lot out of her
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Funny thing is I realized as a adult I had seen 3 versions I grew up watching the fully edited version very light cursing then I saw the basic edit more cursing yet only side boob in the shower this version replaces heavier curse words into lighter curse words bison says idgad instead of idgaf for example then there is the full version and it has full boobies and extreme cursing
It’s crazy to think that Bryan Cranston voiced Fei Long in the Street fighter 2 Movie
he was also Isamu in Macross Plus. wonder if he did more anime
One of his first ever acting role was in an anime movie called Galaxy Express 999 back in 1980.
A lot of famous Hollywood actors' first role was actually anime. Shia LaBeouf (Nausicaa), Daisy Ridley (Only Yesterday), Kirsten Dunst (Kiki's Delivery Service), and many more.
They actually got their start in anime.
That Chun-Li scene awakened something in some of us. Also, the Ryu vs Sagat fight was hype as hell
I rewound that scene multiple times.
The Chung Li Vega fight I still watch today.
Awaken My Masters
@@PeopleRTheProblemit's such an awesome fight, she kicks him through the wall its insane (in a good way)
It also gave directors the incentive to put showers scenes in other anime fighting game adaptations. Like Fatal Fury and Voltage Fighter lol
Guile's car is a '66 Shelby GT350 dude! Super iconic American car and (I think) suits Guile right down to the ground... even though he REALLY doesn't look after it!
No. It's a Dodge Viper.
Don't forget how well the Merc in Calcutta was illustrated
It’s crazy how influential this film (and to a lesser extent the live action film) was on the series. Bison hypnotizing fighters and bending them to his will started with these two films, and was adopted into the games.
It's a heck of a good video game movie that then influences the video games it was based on, which this SF2 anime did the SF games. :)
References big (The Entire Alpha Series, creation of Brainwashed Ken. Bison's redesign.) and small (Zangief and Cammy cape intros, Cammy neck break, Dramatic Battles.)
Also his more beefier look. Same with Sagat. He was a skinny guy sorta but really tall in sf2, in this he's a giant mountain of muscle. Ken kinda got treated like crap here but at least got a W over Hawk and if you count, against Bison at the end. In alpha it was even worse.
It’s really wild to think that if this movie didn’t exist, so much of what people love about SF would simply not exist
So much of this changed the street fighter series. Dramatic battle, alpha 2 intro, Bison's psycho powers, Zangief's cape...
In Japanese, special moves (including fighting game ones) are called "hisastuwaza", and the kanji/ideograms used to write it literally mean "technique that is certain to kill".
...I thought it was relevant to your conversation at the beginning to point that out. The Japanese pretty much have their brain set up (by their own language) for the "my new secret technique wins the fight in one blow" trope. XD
40:55 Guile and Chun-Li go to Los Angeles, not New York City. That’s what’s written on the screen in Japanese. That may explain how Guile was able to get to Seattle so quickly, lol.
Chun-Li's apartment is in New York.
That Ken & Ryu combo attack with the tatsu into the shoryuken into the air and ground hadoken was reused as a tag team super in Rival Schools (Justice Gakuen) by Hideo and Kyoko.
The hurricane kick didn’t break his arm. Ryu folded his arm backward and dropped him on it. It’s in the scene playing in the background
This
Fun story. I think in 7th or 8th grade, my friend had the Van Dam movie on VHS and he was letting everyone borrow it. I wanted to borrow it, but when I asked, he told me another friend had it. He told me whether I would like to borrow the animated movie instead. Disappointed, I borrowed it as a way to tie me over until the live action movie returned. I was blown away by it. When I finally saw the Van Dam movie, I was like WTF is this shit? The animated movie was better. I saw it uncensored and subtitled.
When talking about the violence in the movie, you have to remenber that original games were inspired by just as violent shonen manga. None of the violence in this movie would be out of place in Hokuto no Ken, Saint Seiya or Jojo.
Still have my VHS copy. I always thought it was arranged how the cyborgs were supposed to be infiltration units but stood out like cyborgs. A ball cap wouldn’t hide the half metal face, glowing single red eye with a glowing single white eye.
I watched this when bootlegs were in.
Any store that sold imports had this.
Best $20 I spent, plus it was letterboxed, I love fan subs.
I think the Chun-Li shower scene was everyone's favorite back then.
The battle between Balrog/Vega and Chun-Li was also top tier.
Talk about nostalgic memories, I can't believe it's been 3 decades.
😭😭😭 Hearing Bison say I don’t give a shit cracks me up
ITS TIMELESS LIKE TONI STORM
16:47
The DVD you're referring to was released by Manga Entertainment in 2006. It was technically a re-release since the original 90s DVD & VHS tapes were put out English-only by a division of Sony Music in the US.
1:15:40
Fun fact: Both Alpha anime were western co-productions (with Manga being the co-producer) and Generations didn't even get a DVD release in Japan until 4 years after the US as a bonus DVD with their release of The Legend of Chun-Li.
Chun-Li with the couch advantage!
Bison was the most powerful he had ever been in all of the lore. He could've defeated anyone on that film, but he just had to do Martial Arts against two of the most Martial Arts guys in the world, lol
To his credit, he was still holding on well. It was because Ken grabbed his legs while he was down that he took damage he wasn't able to come back from.
It's just like in the movie "The Faculty". The queen had the whole town and school under control, but she just had to keep the last handful of students around for herself. She could've easily let her minions take care of them.
Feel like hubris usually takes down villains
EVERYONE GET IN HERE!!
Read that in Phil Ken Sebben's voice. Like old times.
And that was the first time I ever heard of Korn - Blind, also how Chun-Li became my eternal crush.
22:22 Sluffing off
"Sluffing has multiple meanings:
Loose snow avalanche, non cohesive snow falling down a slope.
Truancy, absence from schooling.
Sluffing (cards), playing cards of little or no value in a card game."
I'mma assume it's the truancy one in this case. :P
This is definitely the Real Battle On Film.
Also, because of the dub version of this film i learned that Japanese fighters stick together CUZ WE'RE BROTHERS! AHHHH HAHA HAA.
Bro, when Akuma launches that's how you should meet him in world tour mode! 😂 He should just be selling fruit on the side of the road in Nayshall!
I still have my VHS from this masterpiece from back in 1996, it came on a bundle with the Fatal Fury anime movie, i saw both movies 3 or 4 times a week, i was so addicted for both franchises!!
A moment of silence to all the lads that watched the censored version back in the days and got absolutely robbed. 😔😔
The dubbed vs is the real monster here
Watched both but censored first on VHS ❤️
I was the opposite. I saw the uncensored version first and it was many years that I was like, "...There's a censored version?"
Watched the censored version when I was a kid and loved it. I was pleasantly surprised when I randomly came across the uncensored version 😂
I love the original Japanese version of the Street Fighter II Movie. The Japanese version music seems much more fitting, and the voice acting is powerful and more emotive than the American version
I kinda liked the Japanese soundtrack better than the domestic release. I'm probably just biased because the Japanese version was the first one I saw. I especially liked the song that played when Chun Li fought Vega.
Ken was looking for sailors at the docks
No, I was buying out a yacht to party and celebrate my victory from the US martial arts tournament.
Ken's Playlist still slaps. Israel's Son, Them Bones... It still slaps.
Fun Fact:
In the Street Fighter II game, my favorite music genre was originally 80s glory-medal music.
Kinda like what you hear in Top Gun, Rocky IV and No Retreat, No Surrender.
But in the OVA, they modernized it for 1994 by turning my favorite music genre into Grunge-Rock such as Korn, Silverchair and Alice In Chains.
I have memories of watching Street Fighter II MOVIE back in the early 2000s at my grandparents house. They showed it on Cartoon Network, who also used to broadcast the anime series and the U.S cartoon. One cool detail about that is that all of 3 Street Fighter animated projects shared the same voice cast, since they were dubbed in the same recording studio in Colombia, though there was an alternate Neutral Spanish dub made in Mexico in which M. Bison was dubbed by the same VA who dubbed Raúl Julia in the live-action movie and many years later dubbed Bison in the anime Hi-Score Girl
I have to say that it's incredible how this movie has such an impact on the Street Fighter universe, especially in the Alpha series or how now Cammy has a Super Movie in SF6 based on a scene from this movie, not to mention that her new look seems based on her appearance from SFII V
the Brazilian dub shown on CN was so horrible it's funny.It was recorded in Los Angeles by an amateur cast not used with dubbing or voicing major productions and it shows(same dude played Ken,Vega,Fei Long and over half of the extras doing the exact same voice...). It's infamous among fans not only for its quality but also due to being lost media and no footage of it has been found to this day.
Thankfully,there was a much better dub for the VHS release,using most of the cast that did the dubs for the live action movie,2 V anime,and the U.S cartoon
The main impact the anime movie had is that I've always felt that every iteration of Sagat in the games since has been too small. It also made me always want Sagat to have a super version of Tiger Shot since it looks so good in the anime. The movie's got peak Sagat design at the very least.
This was the first movie I imported, from the UK, on VHS. Oh the memories of waiting until I was home alone to watch it.
I had the original VHS and I’m convinced I had a version that didn’t have the Alice In Chains or any of the other rock music.
I was only allowed to watch if I fast-forwarded the shower scene. I’m 🌈 now so jokes on my parents, that scene would have no effect on me anyway
For anyone wondering the song during Bison landing in the face of the statue is Mantra by Intermix.
I remember finding this in a comic shop just after i got my first job on DVD. I was looking for more Dragonball because i didn't know what 'anime' was yet, so the person there told me to get this, Ghost in the Shell and Ninja Scroll... which blew my mind. I was never the same again.
LETS GOOOOOOO
Extra points for THEM BONES
One other thing that's worth bearing in mind:
There was literally only so much they could do with the budget they had to fill 100 minutes with PEAK animation.
There's obviously a lot of moments in the movie that leave you wanting more in terms of showcasing characters and deep-diving into lore and rivalries and stuff like that.
You kinda have to remind yourself, for the era this movie came out and for the budget they had, this was TOP TIER animation, and it had it's limits.
In some ways, it's probably much harder to make an animated film back then than it was to make one in live action. This was well before CG animation technology had developed as far as today. This was the same year the original Toy Story came out, after all. Most of this animation was still being drawn and painted BY HAND.
By necessity, they had to narrow their focus onto the aspects they thought were most important. Chiefly, the relationship between Ken & Ryu, Bison driving a wedge between them with his Psycho power mind control, and the two of them eventually teaming up again to take him out.
A lot of stuff has to take a backseat to tell that story, so they had to make the most of what little moments they could to showcase the supporting cast. Heck, even a character as important as Guille kinda has to play second fiddle through the whole movie. Guille doesn't even get a truly kick-ass fight scene to showcase him, so he's almost worse off than Chunners in that regard.
But even if the movie does leave you wanting more, it DELIVERS on what it brings to the table with aplomb. That's a big part of why it still holds up 30 years later.There was literally only so much they could do with the budget they had to fill 100 minutes with PEAK animation.
the ungodly amount of times we watched that damn vhs is unimaginable : P
and VHS tapes got worn out the more you watched them too. :O
It's absolutely WILD that Chun-li has a shower scene, showing T&A, in a VERY PG-13 franchise, and it's NEVER happened again, Cammy and Juri push the boundaries, but we've never got a surprise like that ever again. Moments in history right there, even Mortal Kombat hasn't gotten there, and the closets was Sonya's shear t-shirt in MK vs. DC, AND THAT WAS T RATED! WHAT THE HELL?! lol
It was not even that uncommon. 80s/90s animes and anime movies were just wild like that, good times.
Street Fighter was inspired shonen manga and anime, where nudity at least used to be relatively common.
The funny thing about the Chun-Li shower scene is that it actually ISN'T just gratuitous T&A.
It actually serves a purpose in the looming tension that builds to the Vega fight scene, with the creeping voyeurism of the sequence ramping up to convey the sense of a predator closing in on its unsuspecting prey at its most vulnerable.
It is, in a sense, employing the same techniques used by Hitchcock in his famous shower scene in Psycho.
The gratuitous T&A is just a delicious cherry on top of a lavishly constructed sundae.
One of the best animated movies ever, phenomenal voice cast and an amazing soundtrack.
I’ve been waiting for this one ever since I watched it years ago (uncensored, of course. Thanks Crunchyroll).
Justin bringing up Ryu and Ken training as an anime made me immediately think of the next thing you should cover on fighting game theater, matt.
GET READY FOR A NEW CHALLENGER! Street Fighter: Assassin's Fist!
13:24 Claw is 6 foot 1 and only 160 pounds? With that amount of muscle?
Soundtrack for this is some of the most '90s shit ever. It's great.
... so Fei Long is two of Rita Repulsa's monsters, got it. 😂 (Yes, I know he was Zordon in the reboot movie too, but his MMPR TV work was closer to this timewise.)
This f*cking movie man, it had no business being as good as it was. It's a bizarre anomaly in the best way possible
this is why we have Street Figther V that does a better job at story telling with ken and Ryu on their journey especially learning their special moves.
Guile is the biggest wet fart in this movie, but he does manage to damage Bison's cape with the sonic boom (you can see the cape is torn when Bison shows up after it)
Well, at least when the sonic boom cuts that house in half I thought it was coolest thing I had ever seen, if I'm not mistaken I think I saw this even before Dragon Ball Z so I had never seen this kinda of op stuff
Lol
I originally watched this movie from my copy of Street Fighter Anniversary Collection on the PS2.
They had to show a censored PG-rated version of the OVA on the Street Fighter Anniversary Collection to avoid an M-rating.
Dear Matt and Justin,
The Shadowlaw\NWO reference @18:05 was BRILLIANT! I popped hard to that and in retrospect makes so much sense now. (can potentially be applied to The Judgement Day now, too with Metalingus - "The Other Side")
I've played that clip so many times in this vid since then. Fave bit by FAR!! 👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾
Well done for this video. Probs shamelessly considered niche by now, but still the GOAT!!
58:46 Guile: She'll definitely be impressed by my muscles while she's unconscious in a hospital bed.
I really hope someday we get a Fighting Game Theater episode on the Power Stone anime. Absolutely one of the best anime adaptations of a video game.
This anime is still a kazillion times waaay better than modern anime now
This was the movie that got me into anime. Legendary awesome flick.
Every character who had beef with Bison should have been there at the climax
The Alpha OVA didn't do the same,
what a pity.
I love this movie, I think in the short list of people who enjoy the Japanese soundtrack over the us version.
“Itoshisa to Setsunasa to Kokoro Zuyosa to” is a god-tier song. I don’t think I can ever imagine this movie without it. The fact that it was re-recorded for SF6 makes the devs true marks, and I love them for it.
I remember saving up and having my dad use his eBay account to win an auction for VHS copy. Turned out to certainly be a bootleg copy, but I certainly enjoyed it!
I saw the original version on bootleg VHS. No subtitles or anything.
_And it was glorious!_
I watched this movie back in 96, in Brazil. It has just blown out our minds at the time.
Bro I was brought up on those bootleg vhs stores. I grew up in New York city in the late 80s and thought the 90s. I also got dbz tapes with Japanese commercials on them too. Still subtitled tho! The 90s were wild to get anime. I tell my kids now all the time how great it is to have everything at our fingertips. We're gods!
Bison's plan here is so weird. He wants an army of skilled fighters instead of tanks or bombs. Among fighting game movie adaptations, DOA is the only one where the villain's plan makes sense. Donovan hosts a tourney to record everyone's moves and sell their skills to anyone who wants to learn for a hefty payday. That makes sense.
I’m not a huge fighting game fan, but I’ve always admired the art and characters of Street Fighter as a series. It’s one of the things that got me interested in art as a kid.
I kinda wish we had a game set in the street fighter world, but that was a 3D adventure brawler. Something like Sunset overdrive mixed with the Dragon’s Dogma, but again in the Street Fighter Universe. I want themed areas, big boss reveals, a banging soundtrack, and festive visuals.
Honestly, art wise, I think Capcom is probably my favorite video game company out of all of them. There is something about their style, man.
I think the specific meaning Ken uses of "Sluffing off" for Ryu in the flashbacks is the absence of schooling. He's calling him a dumbass.
In regards to wanting a new animated a few years back there was actually a pitch for a Street Fighter animated series called Warriors Dawn, by a guy who was an episode director for Batman The Animated Series, Last Airbender and Legend of Korra (for people who don't like Korra's story he was only an episode director he didn't dictate the story). Apparently it nearly got made and would have been animated by Studio Mir (in their usual art style).
Thrilled to see this series continue. I love these videos!
One of the first anime films I ever watched back in, what, 94, 95? And yeah, I saw the uncensored version with the 90's grunge/metal soundtrack right out the gate.
The studio that animated this movie put their WHOLE ASS into the production. Still holds up as a classic.
The Vega/Chun-Li sequence is just perfect cinema in every respect.
Too bad the Alpha movie is a POS. Beautifully animated, but a POS nonetheless.
Haven't seen Alpha Generations, but didn't sound like it was much better either.
I watched this movie a ridiculous amount of times back on VHS (and it was the Manga Video UK version so it had the US dub/music AND the uncut parts including the shower scene). It's still easily my fave video game movie and probably my fave looks for most of the Street Fighter characters too. They look great in this style. Also... KMFDM's Ultra to Chun-Li and Vega fighting is just the best!
Also I bought that Jada Toys Fei Long action figure a few weeks ago and refer to it as a Bryan Cranston action figure just to see which of my friends understood the reference. :P
Ryu totally no sold getting hit by that Dragon Kick 😏
The song when shadowlaw/bison enters scene is forever stuck in my head
Fun Fact: Shuuko Murase, the character designer behind Gundam Wing, made this 9 months prior.
Matt: "Why is cyborg so sexy?"
Fun fact: The character designer for Street Fighter 2 the Movie is Shuko Murase, a veteran animator in Japanese animation. His next design job after this movie was for Gundam Wing--so he went from designing huge, over-muscled sexy men to designing pretty, twink sexy boys.😂
Well, he also did Night Warriors after that. Basically, his job was making anything and everything including monsters look sexy.
It’s the greatest video game movie of all time & one of the greatest OVAs ever made. A movie so influential that it set the tone for SF Alpha & beyond. 30 years, man time goes by fast
🎉 Shout out to the movie that poisoned a generation's pronunciation of Ryu
what do you mean? This animated film did it right, the live action film (and the US cartoon based on it) got it wrong.
Rye u?
@@slyfox2022 I love the movie but maaan it's funny how much impact that had haha
dub*
@@agrippa2012 I'm gonna be completely honest, I was autopiloting into thinking of Street Fighter the Movie 😭
I ditched all my old VHS years ago. All except one... this gem.
I love this movie and I even got the accompanying manga.
JUSTIN WONG! OH MY GOD!
ROFL, "Vega, I mean Balrog, I mean Claw!"
This is one of my favourite anime ova movies still to this day up there with Guyver Bio booster armour, Urotsukidoji legend of the overfiend, Cyber City OEDO 808, Dominion Tank Police, Akira, Robot Carnival and Ninja Scroll are my top animes from then and still to this day 🥰
Did anyone else notice Bison’s scientist looks like Dr. Wheelo’s assistant from Dragon Ball: The World’s Strongest?
Bryan Cranston was also in an episode of Seinfeld back in the early 90s as well
"Sloughing off", like what happened to Itchy Tasty Guy's skin. Kind of an odd accusation but it is Capcom.
29:26 "I am the one who Dragon Kicks."
I remember the ps2 hyper street fighter 2/street fighter 3 3rd strike had it!
Yup was the censored cut
I'm glad I'm not the only one whose first real experience with a lot of anime and Japanese gaming was those weird ads in the back of game magazines.
Didnt Ryu break Fei Longs arm with another move before the tatsu?
My first memory of this movie was in a JC Penny. Back in the day, they had a small electronics section with demo kiosks for SNES and Genesis demos. They had the movie playing behind ymthe counter. I must've been there the first time they showed it, cuz I got to see Chun Li in the shower. At a JC Penny. In the mall. Lol!
They fast forwarded last that scene the next time I was there
It's a brilliant movie characters look really cool but then what I can't get is how the 2nd film looked awful
Capcom should have funded the team that made Street Fighter Assassin Fist series. They did live action SF very well
The golden rule for fighting game anime predates fighting games because it came from the series they were based on. About half of all fighting game concepts can be traced back to '80s Shonen Jump. Special moves are literally called sure-kill moves in Japan and had to be watered down for gameplay reasons.
18:08 Bison just 2 sweetin the crowd all wrong and fucked up LOL. one finger 2 sweet 🤣
That's cool that scenes from this movied basically inspired the Street Fighter Alpha franchise.
1:09:05 : NGL, this is exactly what the NYT would have written IRL. Genius.
I always remember Bison calling Cammy a b*tch in the English dub.
We know Bison is evil, but DAMN Bison you didn't have to call her that.
I remember watch this on the theater here in Brazil, uncensored
This animated movie is the best adaptation of the Street Fighter II game! The only ones that come close in quality and superb art style are Street Fighter Alpha The Animation, Street Fighter Alpha Generations even though these two were more about the Street Fighter Alpha games and also the live action Street Fighter Assassin's Fist! The Street Fighter II V series was also pretty good.
A classic here
I saw this movie again a couple years ago, after having seen it as a kid. I remembered the Chun-Li shower scene, of course, but I was not prepared for just how intensely gay Ryu and Ken are for each other. Especially in the scene where Ken is driving in his car, makes a half-assed proposal to Eliza, and, upon her noncommittal response, immediately flashes back to the time in his youth when Ryu was cut on the forehead during an intense, sweaty sparring session. Ken bent over to tend to his wound, and they looked each other intensely in the eyes as they tenderly touched each other's faces. He is so distracted by this thought that he nearly slams into a semi-truck. I think she knew his heart wasn't in it, especially since he has to be reminded what they were talking about.
Their romance is the clear throughline of the film, insofar as it even has one. The final fight scene especially. The whole first part of the fight until Ken finally breaks his conditioning is just generally slashy as hell. Only their "friendship" is strong enough to defeat Bison.
I would hesitate to even call it subtext it's so unsubtle, but given the edgy 90s hetero vibe the rest of the movie gives off I honestly think that somehow it was unintentional.
Fantastic episode, brilliant content, thanks guys!
Guile drives a ford mustang 😂
Also i always thought that Chun Li might have lost a lot of blood during that fight, i mean Vega has a pretty big claw and she gets sliced on the chest, i can imagine it being pretty deep and thats why the fight takes a lot out of her