Sutorîto Faitâ II gekijô-ban (1994)

Director:

Gisaburo Sugii

Writers:

Kenichi Imai (writer)
Gisaburo Sugii (writer)

Release Date:

16 January 1996 (USA)

Genre:

Action | Animation

Tagline:

The ultimate anime fighter, uncut & unleashed!

Plot:

Bison, the ruthless leader of the international terrorist organization Shadowlaw, has been desperately...

Plot Keywords:

Martial Arts | Chun Li | Based On Video Game | Cyborg | Anime

Cast

Kôjiro Shimizu	...	Ryû (voice)
Kenji Haga	...	Ken Masters (voice)
Miki Fujitani	...	Chun-Li (voice)
Masane Tsukayama	...	Guile (voice)
Masakatsu Funaki	...	Fei Long (voice)
Ginzô Matsuo	...	Deejay (voice)
Shôzô Îzuka	...	Thunderhawk (voice)
Yôko Sasaki	...	Cammy White (voice)
Daisuke Gôri	...	Edmond Honda (voice)
Yukimasa Kishino	...	Dhalsim (voice)
Unshô Ishizuka	...	Blanka (voice)
Tetsuo Kanao	...	Zangief (voice)
Chikao Ôtsuka	...	Old Scientist
Kaneto Shiozawa	...	Balrog Fabio La Cerda (voice)
Shigezô Sasaoka	...	Sagat (voice)

Also Known As:

Street Fighter II Movie (Japan: English title) (literal title)
Street Fighter II: The Animated Movie (USA) (video title)

MPAA:

Rated PG-13 for non-stop animated martial arts violence.

Runtime:

98 min | USA:94 min (video version)

Country:

Japan

Language:

English | Japanese

Color:

Color

Aspect Ratio:

1.85 : 1

Sound Mix:

Dolby

Certification:

Australia:M | Singapore:PG | Germany:18 | Sweden:15 | UK:15 | USA:PG-13 | USA:Unrated | Netherlands:12

Company:

Capcom Entertainment

Trivia:

In the American version, Guile is after Bison, in the original Japanese version he is really after Vega. This is due to the fact that names had to be changed for legal reasons. The characters of Balrog, M. Bison, and Vega were changed about. In the Japanese version what Americans know as Bison is Vega, Vega is Balrog and Balrog is M. Bison.

Goofs:

Continuity: When Honda fights Balrog there is a scene where they grapple and role off the cliff. It switches back and forth from a close-up shot and a far shot, in the close-ups they are rolling and touching the rock surface but in the far shots they are free falling a couple of feet from the rock surface.

Quotes:

Bison: [to Ryu] Miserable maggot no one has been able to topple me! I clearly underestimated this man.

Movie Connections:

References Street Fighter (1994)

Soundtrack:

Ultra

Much better then the live action version.

Now this is what the live action street fighter should have looked like. At least in this movie the characters stories are right (most of them). The fight scenes in this movie are really good. Especially the bloody fight between Vega and Chun-Li, for the most part of that Chun-Li is dodging Vega's claw as KMFDM is playing in the background. The soundtrack was changed for the dubbed version, adding bands songs that we know or don't know so well for a few scenes but leaving most of the film score the same during most fight scenes. The songs actually fit with what's going on. The only one that I think was playing in a fight scene was Ultra, and that went really good matching the fast paced action that was happening on screen. The only thing that bugs me a bit is that part of the shower scene was cut. It was a scene that showed Chun-Li's breasts for about 5 seconds. It's not the fact that the nudity was cut out that bugs me it's the fact that I don't like it when I movie gets cut and I find out about it knowing that if I was in another country it could see it. The movie was great overall and anyone who wants to see a good Martial arts film should see it.

My review 8.