Street Fighter Movie Dub Cast Talks Ryu, Ken, and Chun-Li at Tokyo Game Show 2026
A Capcom-adjacent game director publicly vouching for the film's fidelity to Street Fighter II's moves is the kind of endorsement the live-action adaptation needs to win over a Japanese audience that has watched this franchise stumble on screen before.
Reporting from 2 sources: Game Spark, Inside.
At Tokyo Game Show 2026, Hiroki Takahashi, Yuji Kishi, and Fumiko Orikasa appeared alongside Street Fighter 6 director Takayuki Nakayama to discuss the Japanese dub of the live-action Street Fighter: The Movie. The panel covered the film's synopsis, set stories from filming, and how dubbing a live-action film differs from recording for the games.
The panel opened with the film's synopsis: Ryu and Ken, raised like brothers and both famous martial artists, have grown distant, and a woman named Chun-Li arrives with an invitation to the World Warrior Tournament. Takahashi said the adaptation made him happy the series keeps moving forward; Kishi admitted he spent the wait hoping the dub offer would come. Nakayama recalled the set as a place close to games, with an arcade cabinet beside the shoot and Cody Rhodes inviting him to play Street Fighter 6 in his trailer. Takahashi described the hardest part of dubbing as matching an overseas actor's performance, and singled out Andrew Koji as becoming Ryu completely.
Synthesized by Yomimono from the 2 cited sources below, including Japanese-language reporting where cited, then editorially reviewed before publishing.