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Street Fighter: The Legend of Chun-Li

Year:

2009

Duration:

96 min

Genres:

Action | Crime | Fantasy | Thriller

IMDB rate:

3.7

Director:

Andrzej Bartkowiak

Details

Country: Canada

Release Date: 2009-02-27

Filming Locations: Bangkok, Thailand

Earnings

Budget: $50,000,000

Opening Weekend: $4,721,110 (USA) (1 March 2009)

Gross: $8,742,261 (USA) (10 May 2009)

Cast

Actor

Character

Kristin Kreuk

Chun-Li

Chris Klein

Charlie Nash

Neal McDonough

Bison

Robin Shou

Gen

Moon Bloodgood

Det. Maya Sunee

Josie Ho

Cantana

Taboo

Vega

Michael Clarke Duncan

Balrog

Pei-pei Cheng

Zhilan

Edmund Chen

Xiang

Inez Yan

Chun-Li (5 yrs)

Elizaveta Kiryukhina

Rose

Emilze Junqueira

Jeanne Xiang

Katherine Pemberton

Chun-Li (10 yrs)

Siri Sirijane

Liu

Krystal Vee

Lucy

Thamapat Seengamrat

Secretary Tong

Tim Man

Yung

Jeremy Thana

Korean Boss

Sami Vayrynen

European Boss

Gigi Velicitat

Russian Boss

Arash Sharifi

Pakistani Boss

Chuchok Ritnok

Chinese Boss

Norio Suzuki

Japanese Boss

Anis Cheurfa

Thug # 1 in Alley

Kulnadda Pachimsawat

Thai News Reporter

Brahim Achabbakhe

Thug in Tenement House

Sahajak Boonthanakit

Thai Detective

Brendan Miller

Young Bison

Pei Pei Wang

Chun-Li (10 yrs) Double

Hannah Mei Lin Tan

Chun-Li Transition Girl

Erik Markus Schuetz

Kantana's Bodyguard (uncredited)

Ron Smoorenburg

Balllrogs gang (uncredited)

Did you know?

Trivia

First Street Fighter film (either live action or animated) to not feature Ryu and Ken in the characters cast. However, Ryu is mentioned at the end of the film as a formidable Japanese fighter entering a tournament.

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In the video games, Vega is Spanish. In this film, Vega is Native American because Taboo is Mexican and Native American. In the video games, Vega wears a mask to protect his beauty; in this film, he wears it to hide his face.

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This film marks the second time that the character Vega, was portrayed by an actor of Native American and Latin Ethnicity. Taboo who portrays Vega for this film, is Mexican and Native American. In the 1994 film "Street Fighter", the Spanish Vega was portrayed by Jay Tavare; who is White Mountain Apache and Latin.

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Goofs

During the opening credits, a plane is shown approaching and landing at Kai Tak airport. The next shot over Hong Kong shows the completed IFC Two tower. The tower was completed in 2006; Kai Tak airport closed in 1998.

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Bison is the child of Irish missionaries. The actors portraying him as a teenager and adult are appropriate, but when he is gravely ill in the orphanage, the camera zooms on an apparently Asian baby.

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If Bison was raised in Bangkok from infancy, he wouldn't have the Irish accent that seems to come and go.

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Quotes

Det. Maya Sunee: So... where do we start?

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Vega: [Chun-Li has cut Vega's face and has her foot pressed against his head] You think this is over?

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Charlie Nash: I love my job.

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Faq

Will there be special moves from the characters in this film?

From producer Ashok Amritraj:We did up to a point and then we went off and went into... it is a classic martial arts movie. I mean its a classic genre martial arts film in certain ways. In other ways it has the hadouken - the chi ball. It has the spinning bird kick you know, where she does her spinning bird kick. It has many of those sort of iconic images to it, but I think the action sequences are quite wonderful to tell you the truth.Source: http://www.collider.com/entertainment/interviews/article.asp?aid=9604&tcid=1

Why won't Ryu and Ken be featured in the film?

This film is based on the "Street Fighter: Alpha" series and focuses on the events that happend before the second "World Warrior" tournament. Chun-Li was not in the original SF tournament, but she was in the 2nd, which is what the "Street Fighter II" game is based on. Chun-Li met Charlie before she met Guile, who entered the "World Warrior" to investigate Charlie's death in the hands of M. Bison. Chun-Li is the first character of the series to have a connection to Bison, the series' main antagonist because he killed her father.

How many Street Fighter characters are in the film?

Chun-Li, M. Bison, Rose (Street Fighter Alpha), Balrog, Nash (Charlie), Vega, and Gen.

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