Tekken: The Motion Picture (1997) (V)

User Rating:

4.9/10   

Director:

Kunihisa Sugishima

Writer:

Ryota Yamaguchi (writer)

Genre:

Animation | Action

Plot Keywords:

Remake | Based On Video Game

Cast

Kazuhiro Yamaji	...	Kazuya Mishima
Yumi Tôma	...	Jun Kazama
Akio Nakamura	...	Lei Wulong
Daisuke Gôri	...	Heihachi Mishima
Shinichirô Miki	...	Lee Chaolan
Minami Takayama	...	Nina Williams / young Kazuya
Kaori Yamagata	...	Anna Williams
Akio Ôtsuka	...	Jack-2 / Narration
Narumi Hidaka	...	Michelle Chang
Tamio Ôki	...	Dr. Boskonovich
Kyôsei Tsukui	...	Baek Doo San
Takashi Nagasako	...	Ganryu
Sendai Eri	...	Young Jun Kazama
Shihori Niwa	...	Operator
Takehiro Murozono	...	Guard

Runtime:

Netherlands:60 min

Country:

Japan

Language:

Japanese | English

Color:

Color

Certification:

Canada:14A | Germany:16 | UK:15 | USA:Unrated

Quotes:

Kazuya Mishima: [to Jun] You don't know me, and I don't know what you want, but you can't change my mind. Tomorrow I'm killing my father. Stay out of my way, or you'll die as well.

Movie Connections:

Spin off from Tekken (1995) (VG)

Soundtrack:

Straight To Hell

If you've ever wondered how bad anime could get...

Few people in anime's massive fanbase seem to be willing to accept the fact that most anime is pretty awful. Most anime has terrible pacing, incredibly awkward dialogue, cliched plots and characters, and poor animation in the case of most non-feature anime. Tekken has all of these faults and more to the point where it's so bad you shouldn't miss it. Most notably, for a movie based on a fighting game, there doesn't seem to be very much fighting. Most of what little combat there is is of the Dragonball variety, which involves people standing about ten feet apart and speaking in run-on sentences about their hastily put-together back stories. When the characters aren't 'fighting' they're yammering on about the hilariously lame plot which involves some kind of devil and an island and the end of the world or something. I was too busy laughing through most of it to catch any of major story points. Speaking of laughing, one of the major action sequences involves the characters fighting freaking INVISIBLE DINOSAURS. I'm not kidding. They also managed to work the stupid boxing kangaroo into the story. I caught this movie on cable with the terrible English dub, which gives it another point on the Hilariously Bad scale. There's just so much wrong with this movie that it's great. If you consider yourself an anime fan, do yourself a favor and watch this so you know where the bottom of the barrel is.