Street Fighter Retrospective - Part 4: Real Disaster on Film 

We can shit on Street Fighter: The Movie all we want, but Jesus Christ, Raul Julia deserved an award for being a part of it considering what he was dealing with. The man was a testament to what an actor will do to keep food on the table and a smile on their kid’s face.

it doesnt escape me the irony of recording a movie about a dictator taking over thailand, in thailand, while a dictator was taking over thailand.

The story of Raul Julia only doing this movie because his kids loved Street fighter at the time, playing one of the most iconic bad guys in gaming. It's the coolest thing ive ever heard from a movie

The day you uploaded the 4th chapter in your Street Fighter Retrospective, is the greatest day of your life. But for me, it's just tuesday

Just an addendum, the line "It was tuesday" was actually improvised by Julia himself, you can see it in Chun-Li's actress face since she didn't expect it coming from him.

Street Fighter: The Movie: The Game: The Retrospective: The Video.

The whole section of Raul Julia got me. Not just because it's a beautiful thing he did for his kids, but on a personal level something I think a great dad would do and something I feel my dad would've done for me. I hope to be able to match that amount of love some day with my own children. Love you pops.

In fairness, Bryan Cranston also did a lot of VA for shows like Power Rangers way back when, so he was a voice actor first. His ascension to actor stardom starts with Fei Long and MOTWs.

The fact that nearly half of this video is about the live action Street Fighter movie shows how much of a nightmare it must have been to film it.

For you, the day Thorgi released this retrospective was the most important day of your life…. But for him…It was Tuesday.

That interview with raul julia always makes me cry... it's like his final gift for his children.

I honestly believe to this day that Raul Julia's Bison was so awesome that it influenced future depictions of Bison. That man was a Legend. Thanks for going through the Street Fighter history, looking forward to SF4s story next time!

Remember like four years ago when Matt McMuscles did his "What Happun" on this game/movie? This is like an extended sequel to that!

The fact that Raul Julia, despite his declining health, gave such a memorable performance and had so much presence, is commandable.

this Blade Story is now implied canon, since in the SFV CFN website they have profiles from the original characters of SF Movie, and in the Blade profile they made sure to put the same Weight and Height as Gunloc, and also the fact that he likes Popcorn... just like Gunloc.

Imagine if "The Baz" had became an official Street Fighter 2 character. Now imagine if "The Baz" subsuquently became part of the live action movie.

1:16:38-1:18:06 All these years I thought Woolie was hyper exaggerating with his Shen Long bit in the Fighterpedia episode on the SF Movie. And you mean to tell that was actually all *100% on point?* Right down to the blindfolded Ultra Instinct dodging with a dragon arm?! Man, Incredible Technologies was wild.

I swear to god, the Insanity behind the production of Street Fighter The Movie is a much entertaining film that the actual movie.

okay but "keep your own god," -adjust belt buckle "In fact this might be a good time to pray to him." is actually a badass line

I always thought was a wierd story that apparently Capcom was SO IMPRESSED with Time Killers, they hire Incredible Technologies to make the SF Movie game.

Thorgi: “One of the stuntmans, a former kickboxer named Benny Urquidez…” Me after my jaw dropped: “Former undefeated 61-0 full contact Kickboxing champion Benny (The Jet) Urquidez was in the Street Fighter movie!” 🤯

I would legitimately love a Star Gladiator retrospective. Its always fascinated me and I'd love to learn more about it.

Street Fighter II V(ictory) is incredibly underrated and not known for those that never watched it on Manga Video (VHS/DVD). Even as a kid watching it, I considered it the alternate universe of the Street Fighter II story

“You can’t make camp on purpose” You sir- are a genius.

Raul Julia was a true family man

What a badass. Raul Julia played the part of M. Bison, despite his terrifying health conditions at the time, for his children, and still gave the best show for the movie. What an absolute legend if a man.

I still can't figure out why they did not name Sawada - Feng Long, nothing would literally change, but they would add all the characters there :)

Another thing the anime Street Fighter 2 movie was known for was showing Chun-Li naked. Most modern cuts of the film have removed that part of the scene. (Where she's showering shortly before her fight with Vega) Any teenage boys who got to see the original cut when it first came out were pretty lucky.

Legend of Chun-Li was clearly an issue with direction. Kristen Kreuk is an amazing actress. Neal McDonough proved he could be a cheese-coated villain with his time as Damien Darhk in the CW Arrowverse shows.

Great retrospective as always! Funnily enough Akuma being Ryu’s father is implied in two other different movies mentioned and we also potentially get to see Ryu’s mother. Street Fighter: Alpha Generations is the one that really leans into the subtext that Ryu’s mother is Sayaka, the childhood friend of Akuma and Gouken and the daughter of their master Goutetsu. Street Fighter: Assassin’s fist adapts that story into live action but changes Sayaka into Goutetsu’s niece, it’s not as direct as Alpha Generation but the implication is still there.

Just a reminder: In 1993 we got the best depiction of Chun Li ever in a movie called City Hunter, interpreted by the great actor... Jackie Chan. Yup. Chun Li vs. Ken, it even got special moves... you can watch two human beyblades spinning against each other. It is magical.

Raul Julia IS my one and only M. Bison. All respect to him for just being in here. RIP Legend.

That quote from m bison in the American street fighter show sounds so much like it came from an abridged series.

I genuinely love the American street fighter movie and learning how much misfortune they experienced in the production just goes to show how immensely talented the people were who made it. Also, my two favourite bits of the way they handled Bison are the scene where he's telling the architect to increase the size of the food court at his palace/shopping mall so that all the major fast food franchises can have restaurants there and the fact that he has a portrait of himself dressed as Pogo the Clown (John Wayne Gacey, in case you didn't know. He used to perform at children's parties in that costume). The latter I didn't even notice for years but once I spotted it in the background of the 'Tuesday' scene I couldn't stop laughing 😂.

Discovered Thorgi and started watching this series less than a week ago. What a nice surprise! Thanks!

Just want to add a bit of insight from someone that was near the fighting game scene AND martial arts at the time. The SF movie was HYPED (if floppy), and the game was a real opportunity to get more eyes on it. My tae kwon do instructor's son was asked to do motion work for the game. _That's him as Akuma._ Unfortunately, either he kept all the merch he got from it, or Surf Ninjas was just a better experience for him, because from there I saw absolutely NO mention of this around the school.

Makes me think about the behind the scenes story of The Island of Dr Moreau. That shoot seemed like an utter nightmare

I'm normally a bit hard on movies and games for portraying the Jamaican accent in an overly exaggerated or fake-sounding way, but I have to commend Miguel Nunez for his role as Dee Jay. I don't know if he's actually Jamaican but he sure convinced me! Better than SF6 Dee Jay anyway.

For the record, the anime series is called Street Fighter II Victory according to the 90s TV guides in Italy, and it's DOPE

I remember the audio commentary saying that Street Fighter II just added some characters and that Street Fighter III was based on the film. (I think the audio commentary was from before III came out.)

Words cannot describe how incredibly frustrating the production of Street Fighter II The Movie sounded. Like could capcom not let the man they hired to make their movie do his job for five minutes without trying to force him to do something else.

So Jon claw van Damme the hero of this film was snowboarding down a mountain of coke and Raul Julia the villain push through stomach cancer because he loved his kids that much are you sure their roles weren’t reversed😢

I bet you chose to do this on a Tuesday on purpose!

On the ps3 re-release of final fight, this SF episode is unlockable & available. That was how I was introduced to the SF cartoon, I never saw or heard of it back then

Fun fact: Street Fighter Alpha: Generations was aired at EVO (either 2005 or 2006) after the tournament wrapped up. Needless to say it got ripped to shreds by the audience Also if you want to down the Street Fighter live action rabbit hole, the unofficial short movies and TV shows are bonkers. I recommend the Korean SF II adaptation and the Boxer/Claw short films by Chubby Boy

I completely forgot about the legend of chun li and when i saw bison immediately i just rolled my eyes. Of course they'd use the same guy who played damian dark and william birkin in that film. God this movie was weird

This whole series is incredible, I learned so much about the history of SF while being very entertained the whole time. I love all your fighting game retrospectives, your the best in the game! I even watch them for games I don't care about, they are that interesting!

1: mr Julia i’d absolutely the man! 2: i need to make a meme out of how star wars and street fighter are the same thing.

I kinda like the idea behind the throw from the movie game. Definitely tweak it so that it’s only one button, not a specific one for each character, but maybe take out the limit to the amount of times that you could do it, and make it so that the timing for each subsequent input gets cut in half. I want to see that craziness at a tournament at some point.

Great video as always. Thanks for all the hard work and effort you put into making this video. I definitely learned some facts about the Street Fighter live-action movie I never knew.

Darn was actually hoping for a star gladiator retrospective, never played it but am interested in the series (the only obscure capcom fighter I played was techromancer, near the start of the year)

Street Fighter the movie actually had more moves than you think: Ryu does something like a Hadouken on Vega Vega does his Rolling attack when fighting Ryu Ken does something like a Shoryuken to Sagat Guile does a Flash Kick on Bison Bison does something like a Psycho Crusher to Guile

50:54 ive never seen that they actually did the win poses, thats great

Dude! Watched this from beginning to end and I must say, I really learned a lot of interesting facts/rumors! Thanks! Great Vid!

I didn't know Blade for SF Movie game but Blade's reveal of Gunloc was mind blowing

One of my favorite parts in the movie is when Zangief realizes he was on the bad guys side, and on top of that, the other guy was getting paid lmao

Also for one unexpected bit of hilarity for the home console release of the game, the font choice makes "2 hit combo" look a bit like "shit combo" at 1:32:11

Loved it. Some great insights into the live action SF2 movie and all the issues. I had heard some of it, but the detail you put in is always awesome that even as a long time fan I learn something new. I have a complete collection of SF games on Playstation consoles and the The Movie The Game was a tough one to procure. It is reasonably rare so I had to pay quite a bit for it at the time, much more than its worth. Also, always been a fan of the SF2 V anime. The V stood for Victory. It was always listed as the SF2 Victory Series when I was younger and shopping around for the VHS. And I do have the complete series on VHS and DVD still, even if I dont have a way to watch them anymore.

I saw the animated movie before the live-action one (in french specifically). I knew Street Fighter II V because Joueur Du Grenier talked about it in one of his videos (in the 2010 to 2014 era if I recall). I also watched a parody dub of the scene where Ken and Ryu meet Dhalsim in the show. Just seeing the Alpha movie characters moving makes my brain tingle very much. Thanks A.P.P.P, from Jojo part 3 ova and Bloody Roar Primal Fury intro fame! The fact the Street Fighter movie has a french canadian dub, meaning that some of the greatest cheesy quotes of all time are said by voices I and a bunch of people bassicly grew up with (even if they translated the Tuesday line by replacing tuesday by Wednesday. Probably labial synchro, idk. The "Of Course" equivalent is dope though), and it's kind of a point of proudness to me about my province. I too would be glad to watch it with a friend, or even buy the dvd/Blu-ray. Good luck for the rest, even if you'll not cover Future Cops and the Korean anime movie.

Found your channel through TKO, great content! Keep up the great work! subbed

Man, this was not a birthday gift I was not expect today... But it is one I can appreciate greatly. Thank you so much for all of the work you do, Thorgi!

Funny, I was waiting for Street Fighter II V to pop up, since that is the one I have the fondest memories of and I like to rewatch it very often, the vibe of it is just awesome. Just to hear here that it's apparently not very well known. I on the other hand heard about the American series here in this video, I knew the live action movie, but saw the anime from 1994 the first time this very year. And yes it's awesome and the fights are amazing but based on the atmosphere Street Fighter II V will still be my favorite Street Fighter series/movie go-to. So, I was kind of disappointed that it wasn't at least a bit more featured here, one cool scene, the awesome theme song, something. But at one point this long and impressive retrospective had to disappoint at least a little bit... ^^

I remember seeing SF2v the complete series available at my local Walmart back in 2007. I bought it & binge watched 2 to 3 episodes a day after school for the next 2 weeks. I never heard of the series until that day

Glad he brought up that creepy plot point in Legend of Chun-Li. Putting all the goodness of your soul into your newborn daughter has no place in a movie where you are just a boring businessman trying to kick people out of slums for gentrification using criminal methods.

Thorgi, I've been looking forward to this section of the Retrospective since it began. And you did not disappoint! There is so much I want to say, but I'll add some thoughts/trivia to The Legend of Chun-Li, since I have a personal poor choice connection to it. The movie hit theaters in February 2009, literally ten days after the home release of Street Fighter IV, and was meant to tie-in and promote it. I had a free day in my work week during that time, so I went to the theater and saw it. Yes. I paid for a ticket on day one. I was excited for a new Street Fighter movie and intrigued about it focusing on Chun-Li's story. Oh, boy... In no particular order: 1. Why does the movie focus so much on Chun-Li being a pianist? That was never part of her character in game and doesn't add too much in the movie's story. 2. Why did they include a smart mouth detective called Charlie Nash? They couldn't have made him a military guy, also after Bison? 3. Nash's partner? The female detective? Her name is Maya. SF IV lore says Maya is C. Viper's real name. So...is she meant to be C. Viper? 4. Neil McDonough is an AMAZING character actor. He played opposite Tom Cruise in Minority Report, has been in both the Marvel and DC extended universes, and even recently was opposite Kevin Costner in Yellowstone. Here? He's an Irish crime lord in Bangkok...who parents were Christian missionaries murdered by local thugs when he was a baby. So...he has an Irish accent because his parents were Irish. Accents are genetic in this universe. 5. And one of the worst scenes...Not to get into the topic of "queerbaiting", but in that club scene Chun-Li notices Bison's hench woman is eyeing other women. So...Chun-Li flirts with her and they do a sexy dance scene together before fighting in the bathroom where Chun-Li lured her. Except it's super clear Kristen Kreuk and Josie Ho are straight women who were uncomfortable and awkward during that whole take.

Great video as always thorgi. You actually just shed a lot of new light for me with this movie; really bittersweet overall when i think about it after ALLL these years looking at this movie. Also with that being said, Imma need capcom to surprise drop Shen-Long in SF6 at this point 😂😂💀💀

I'm sure that Star Gladiator will be highly requested for a Fighting Game Retrospective now and I have no problems with that. Also, I have never heard of those pallet swaps of Blade mentioned when Thorgi was talking about him, are they in the files of the game? are they secret characters? what's going on with those guys?

The production of the street fighter movie is like a looney toon gag. More and more misfortune is being piled onto the film, its crazy

and i thought in the previous episode that the history of this franchise cant get more bizarre ... wow man what a chaos...

Your Fighting games retrospective are the best, no doubt! There is still time to start a Tekken one before January 26th . Or maybe another 3D Fighter like Virtua FIghter or DoA.

Yes! New episode. I’ve been waiting on this for awhile. Just want to say thanks for these top notch quality retrospectives Thorgi. The level of detail is always outstanding. I know these videos are a painstaking effort to make. They are definitely appreciated.

Great job dude and holy cow the story behind the movie is crazy more than what I thought. I’m excited for part 5 your thoughts on street x tekken ps it’s a guilty pleasure but understand people’s problem with it.

As for Ryu being implied to be Akuma/Gouki's son: besides Star Wars there's Baki. The Legend of Chin-Li also had C. Viper in it but never called her C. Viper. Has Thorgi's gone over White Wolf's Street Fighter: The Storytelling Game in a pervious part?

The night I saw this movie was so special to me. That was also the 1st time I saw Tekken in the arcades! Man the 1st time I saw Marshall Law...shit honestly blew my mind and I'm a Virtua Fighter guy to the core! Those flip kicks left a mark on my soul! To this day when I see this movie, I think about that night...those memories still live in my mind vividly

I met Damian Chapa & Ming Na Wen, they autographed my street fighter funko pops

The only voice that I liked in Street Fighter Alpha Generations was Ryu's. Only due to the fact that the voice actor also voiced Kenshin Himura in the 1996 Rurouni Kenshin anime.

Street Fighter: The Movie foresaw the Hashogeki before Capcom ever thought about it

Oh man! I loved this dive into the Street Fighter tv and movies! I will say the Assassin's Fist is WAY better than the two live action movies. We never EEEEEEVER mention Legend of Chun-Li, don't even get me started on that King of Fighters live action movie that's out there!

Hearing about Raul Julia in the Street Fighter Movie never fails to tear me up. I was listening to this video while playing SF6 and I almost lost a match because I was beginning to tear up when Thorgi got to that part. 10/10 would do it again.

Every year I learned move about the movie and it gets better and better (in my opinion 😂) still a Masterpiece of our time despite what the critics say. RIP our Legend Raul Julian, you are always the dictator of our hearts

I actually own the street fighter 2v DVD set and I love it. I'm pretty sure they re-recorded a few lines for the DVD because I remember watching it on KissAnime way back in the day and there was a terrible deadline that doesn't exist in my copy so I'm kind of happy for that as well and kind of sad that I missed out on the terrible deadline but...

my favorite street fighter film is Future cops, the chinese knock off film where Guile, Vega, and Dhalsim have to travel back in time to stop Ken, Sagat, and E. Honda from killing Chun Li's younger brother, who is Goku, because he will grow up to become a judge and put M. Bison in jail. It features such great moments as Guile's musical number, Vega and Chun-li going on a date into Mario bros, and Blanka showing up and becoming a beach ball

I say video is a Merry Christmas as it was released in December. Twas a good watch and can't wait until the next. Lots I never knew about the movie and games, but part of me wants to play the SF:M game, just because of how much trouble it caused them to make the game as it is.

My God , that was a rollercoaster of emotions but it's a great video nonetheless.

SF2 The Animated Movie is one of my favorite video game movies ever. Not just fighting game movies, just video game movies in general! How can I not love a movie that lets us see Chun-Li's boobies? Easily the best scene in the movie! I also love Fatal Fury the Motion Picture, because it lets us see Mai's boobies! Anyway, does anyone else think that Street Fighter The Movie: The Game looks like a Mortal Kombat parody from a 90s sitcom?

I know it was just for a short joke, but thorgi's rant about street fighter and star wars being the same makes me want a Star Wars fighting game build a roster

Lets be Real here Raul Julia is pretty much the only Reason Bison has a personality beyond stock shonen villain.

something else with the Sheng Long shenanigans that i thought was really funny was him showing up as a super strong npc fighter in street fighter 6 world tour after you beat the main story

Fun random story: I used to be a Starbucks barista, and Damien Chapa's sister was one of my regulars. A day after she told me about this, she dropped by (I wasn't working) and left me a photo of him and Kylie Minogue on location in Thailand. I still have it somewhere.

Quick, change the channel! jk, very much looking forward to all this Tuesday has to offer. Raul Julia is the GOAT.

Just gotta say Thorgi. Fucking amazing job man. I don't mind waiting however long bc your love truly shows through the work you put out.

lets be honest as a child ain't no way you didn't think Deejay was a Villain Have you seen that man's smile that's a smile most vile

This series is amazing. The detail u go in is absolutely top notch. Just found ur channel and I’m a huge street fighter fan. My fav fighter

As usual, a video 100% worth the wait. The only thing that still leaves me curious is related to the MIDI renditions of Street Fighter II themes you used all allong the video. So of course they are from the game, but they happen to sound like a less polished rendition of the MIDI soundtrack from the X68000 version of SSFII. Going from the principle that Incredible Technology was indeed given a prototype of said soundtrack by Capcom, of course they may not have known what it would become in parallel. Yet, especially nowadays, I would imagine some diehard Street Fighter fans being very interested in that kind of material, so it would be so ironic if it was just there in that crazy, almost so broken it's good, game. Oh, And while we are at it, is it just my imagination, or is the "reversal" voice clip the same as in the Wrestlemania arcade game from Midway?

A Star gladiators retrospective could be doable in the future like say may 4th, star wars day. It would be quite fitting.

I'm not gonna lie, I'm glad to see how much you've covered in such an epic Streetlights video! Its been such a joy to watch and I'm glad to see it to fruition! Thank you so much and Happy New Year! Here's to more in 24!❤

Funny enough Blanka was meant to be in the arcade and he actually looked better in that version than he did in the home version.

Can't wait to see what that Legendary studios adaptation has cooking.

I've watched this movie a couple times and never once did I notice that M. Bison was Gomez Fucking Addams Dude was an absolute legend RIP

As a big Bison Fan, this is the greatest day of my life. It is also tuesday.