Street Fighter (1994 film)

Street Fighter is a 1994 American action film written and directed by Steven E. de Souza. It is based loosely on the video game Street Fighter II, produced by Capcom, and stars JeanClaude Van Damme, and Ral Juli, along with supporting performances by Byron Mann, Damian Chapa, Kylie Minogue, MingNa Wen and Wes Studi.

In the Southeast Asian nation of Shadaloo City, civil war has erupted between the forces of crazed military dictator General M. Bison Raul Julia and the Allied Nations, a multinational military force, led by their regional commander, Colonel William F. Guile. Bison has recently captured several A.N. relief workers, and via a live twoway radio broadcast, demands Guile secure a US20 billion ransom in three days or else face responsibility for the hostages deaths. Guile refuses and vows to track Bison down, but his assistant, Sergeant Cammy Kylie Minogue is only partially able to pinpoint Bisons location to the riverdelta region outside the city. One of the hostages is Guiles close friend, Carlos Charlie Blanka Robert Mammone, who Bison orders taken to his lab for his captive witch doctor, Dhalsim Roshan Seth, to turn into the first of his supersoldiers. Though Charlie is severely disfigured by the procedure, Dhalsim secretly alters his cerebral programming to maintain Charlies humanity.Meanwhile, travelling con artists Ryu Hoshi Byron Mann and Ken Masters Damian Chapa attempt to swindle arms dealer Viktor Sagat Wes Studi by providing him with fake weaponry. Sagat sees through the ruse and has Ryu fight his cage champion, Vega Jay Tavare, but the fight is interrupted when Guile bursts in and arrests everyone present for violating a curfew. In the prison grounds, Guile witnesses Ryu and Ken fighting against Sagats men, and recruits them to help him find Bison in exchange for their freedom, since Sagat is Bisons arms supplier. They are entrusted with a homing device and win Sagats trust by staging a prison escape and faking Guiles death. However, reporter ChunLi MingNa Wen and her crew, former sumo wrestler E. Honda Peter Tuiasosopo and boxer Balrog Grand L. Bush, all of whom desire vengeance on Bison and Sagat, stumble across the plan, and, over Guiles objections, attempt to assassinate Bison and Sagat at a party. In order to maintain Bisons trust, Ryu and Ken stop the

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