An international terrorist organization that specialize in drug-dealing and crimewaves known only as Shadowlaw is ran by the ruthless leader M. Bison has been searching for years on who will be the best fighter of all time. Until now, a traveling martial-artist named Ryu who travels around the world as he is considered to be the best fighter in the world as M. Bison plans on capturing him with other world fighters so they can be used to conquer the world. It's up to U.S. airfighter Guile, Chinese fighting beauty Chun-Li and American martial arts expert Ken to join forces against M. Bison and his empire.Terrific, vibrant and tough as nails Japanese animated action feast for every fan of the beloved games! i saw this back in 96 when i bought it in it's unrated version when i was 14 years old and loved it, it's brilliantly animated throughout with terrific fighting sequences, some humor and a hot scene where Chun-Li gets in the shower. It's better than the same year's abominable live-action Street Fighter movie and it's what Street Fighter should have been.One of the best anime movies of the 90's and a must have for any anime fan's collection.

Anime based on popular fighting games have the problem of trying to string a series of fights into a coherent plot. Gisaburo Sugii, the director of gloriously beautiful, yet extremely slow-moving features like Night On The Galactic Railroad (1985), might not seem the obvious choice for the anime of CAPCOM's hit game, but his trademark has always been his ability to get inside his material and get the best out of it, whatever the genre. Setting up his scenario and characters without wasting a second, he plays to their strengths in a string of stunningly tense and atmospheric fights choreographed by live-action fight master Shinichi Shoji, exploiting to the full the fact that his actors would bruise and bleed only when necessary for the script. The fight between fan favourite Chun Li and dangerous pretty-boy Balrog is a masterpiece of high-tension editing worthy of Alfred Hitchcock, so well cut that only when it's over do you realize how little actual violence you saw. A TV series, live action film, and another video release followed, but none of them matched up to Sugii's object lesson in how to make a silk purse out of a sow's ear.

People would like to think that the Anime Film version of Street Fighter II - The Fighting Game is far more true to its origins than the live Hollywood version starring Jean-Claude Van Damme. Well, we have every character from the Super-edition present, many of them perform their signature moves such as Hadoken etc., Blanka and Charlie are not the same person and they stuck to the original character back-stories.Is it more true to its origins? Yes. Is it a better movie? Nope.Here's why. Although the Anime had a lot more fight-scenes and on average they were quite impressive, the movie has no plot to speak of. The anime reeks of fan-service, starting with bit-appearances by Fei Long, Cammie, DeeJay, Dhalsim, Zangief, Blanka and T.Hawk and truth-be-told Sagat didn't get to do anything cool either. Plus, the film contains a shower-scene with Chun-Li where the director made a point of showing off her "womanhood" as often as possible.By comparison, the Hollywood film at least had a plot and was rather funny. This film has that "anime-magic" about it, but is really nothing more than a theatrical "TV-special".

I am a big fan of the Street Fighter II video games. If anyone wanted an alternate source for the title other than the game and the live action movie then this is your great alternative! All of the classic characters are in it! M. Bison, Ryu, Ken, Blanka, Zangief, T. Hawk, Chun-Li, Sagat, Vega, Guile, E. Honda, Fei Long, Dhalsim, Cammy, DeeJay, Vega, and Balrog! In My opinion all of the characters look exactly like they do in the video game. The male characters look super and the female fighters look absolutely gorgeous! The animation is so crisp and clean! I have read that are two versions but I have seen the American version. This film may not be suitable for youngsters because of the minor language such as "hell" and "damn" and blood coming from the characters' wounds. Another is a very surprising scene where Chun-Li is taking a shower and then she puts on a night gown type shirt and some underwear and when she fights Vega you see this and even though that this may be uncalled for in an animated feature but I thought it was cute and animated very realistically. More on that in a second. Another thing was the music. Really music though out the entire film! M. Bison and his men were really introduced properly. It was like this was a real movie. One thing to explain is when Chun-Li was in her apartment minding her own business after she got out of the shower and Vega just came barging in. I really liked the fight between Chun-Li and Vega! That scene was really animated well. Another is near the end when M. Bison, Ryu, and Ken are fighting. I believe that the fight scenes in this feature are some of the greatest fight scenes I've seen and I'm commenting on an animated movie! The fighting in the animated feature is simply amazing and I really liked how realistic everything was! If you like the Street Fighter II video games and the Street Fighter live action movie with Jean Claude-Van Damme and the late great Raul Julia (which by the way I think Julia's role as M. Bison was arguably his greatest ever!) then I strongly recommend that you watch this movie now!