The King of Fighters (2010)

Live-action feature based on the video game "King of Fighters".

Director:

Gordon Chan

Writers:

Rita Augustine (story), Chris Chow (story)

Stars:

Maggie Q, Sean Faris, Will Yun Lee

Cast

Cast overview, first billed only:
Maggie Q	...	Mai Shiranui
Sean Faris	...	Kyo Kusanagi
Will Yun Lee	...	Iori Yagami
Ray Park	...	Rugal
David Leitch	...	Terry Bogard
Françoise Yip	...	Chizuru Kagura (as Francoise Yip)
Hiro Kanagawa	...	Saisyu Kusanagi
Bernice Liu	...	Vice
Monique Ganderton	...	Mature
Doug Abrahams	...	Mick O'meara
Candus Churchill	...	Berta
Robin Nielsen	...	Junior Agent
Scott Patey	...	Scott Hana
Toshi Haraguchi	...	Takao Iwata
Sam Hargrave	...	Sam (as Samuel Hargrave)

Storyline

Two of three powerful artifacts allow Rugal Bernstein, a man of evil intent, to enter and control an alternate dimension where gamers have been entering into martial arts combat for fun. From there, he awaits adversaries, killing them rather than defeating them so that he alone will remain as The King of Fighters. As Rugal possesses lesbian lovers Vice and Mature to aid him, undercover CIA agent Mai Shiranui teams up with Iori Yagami and Kyo Kusanagi to stop him before he can unleash a dread spirit named Orochi upon Mankind.

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Plot Keywords:

woman fights a man | female fighter | spirit | alternate dimension | cia | 

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Taglines:

A tournament of legends.

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Genres:

Action | Sci-Fi | Thriller

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Certificate:

16

Details

Country:

Japan Taiwan Germany Canada USA UK

Language:

English

Release Date:

26 August 2010 (Singapore)

Also Known As:

Az ősök kardja

Filming Locations:

Aja Tan Studios, North Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada

Company Credits

Production Co:

Micott & Basara K.K., Double Edge Entertainment, Inferno International

Technical Specs

Runtime:

93 min

Color:

Color

Aspect Ratio:

2.35 : 1

Did You Know?

Trivia

Sam is loosely based on Mr. Big from the Art of Fighting video game series.

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Quotes

Rugal: [Kyo appears in the tournament dimension and sees Rugal] You're not mine. I must have the wrong number.
Kyo Kusanagi: This is the tournament, isn't it?
Rugal: You're new at this.
[Kyo prepares to fight as Rugal approaches him]
Kyo Kusanagi: This is what we do here right? We fight?
[Kyo strikes at Rugal who easily blocks. Rugal roundhouse kicks Kyo through a door. Kyo comes flying through another door further down the hallway]
Rugal: That's not fighting. Technically that's you taking a beating.

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Connections

Referenced in Bad Movie Beatdown: BMB Spoony Experiment: Tekken (2011)

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Soundtracks

Sacred Calls
Written by Ayuko Tanaka
Music by Shogo Ohnishi
Vocals by Yuna
Additional Vocals by Ayuko Tanaka & Lisa Takahashi

User Reviews

Run Away!

Please don't waste your time watching this movie!! Its horrific to see how low budget movie production houses and poor unprofessional directors try to make a movie from a franchise and twist the original characters and story and fan support into a pathetic show of a movie which is nothing but a complete joke.

I mean I was speechless once I was able to finish this movie after keeping myself in the chair in hope that the director would come up with something better. But Alas, it was the same joke again n again.

You could tell at every step of the movie that its a low budget movie with directions so horrible that the actors are stiff, dialogues not in place, the tiny bit of special effects being forwarded to make it faster. Like for gods sake, you couldn't make the Orochi ball into a little bit better display??? If you can't make a good movie, then please don't screw up the original story board and the KOF name.

Anyone with the slightest taste in movies should stay a million miles away from this movie. The whole production house and director should be ashamed of what they have done. Me, a proud fan of KOF, disgusted beyond saying to see this movie.