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unusual facts about Tekken: The Motion Picture



Candîce Hillebrand

She is recently known for playing Nina Williams in the 2010 Tekken live-action movie, based on the popular video game series, Tekken.

Darryl Anka

Darryl Anka (born on October 12, 1951) started his Hollywood career as a special effects designer working on such films as Star Trek: The Motion Picture, I Robot, Pirates of the Caribbean, Live Free or Die Hard and Iron Man.

Eddy Gordo

In the 2010 live-action film Tekken, Eddy is portrayed by Brazilian capoeira fighter Lateef Crowder.

Galaxy Fight: Universal Warriors

This is an uncommon feature in 2D fighting games (other examples of this is Shuma-Gorath's stage in Marvel Super Heroes and all stages in Joy Mech Fight) and is usually more closely associated with the 3D Tekken series.

Hamburger University

Hamburger University was satirized in the 1986 comedy, Hamburger... The Motion Picture.

Hamburger... The Motion Picture

The film was largely inspired by fast food jobs and the Hamburger University program of the McDonald's Corporation.

Heihachi Mishima

He also appears as the main antagonist in the 2011 CGI animated film Tekken: Blood Vengeance, which is an alternate retelling of the events between Tekken 5 and Tekken 6.

High-definition remasters for PlayStation consoles

Tekken Hybrid not only includes an HD upgrade of Tekken Tag Tournament and a prologue based on Tekken Tag Tournament 2 but also comes with the 3D CGI film Tekken: Blood Vengeance.

Hōten-ryū

A short list of the armament techniques include: Jo (short staff), Ken (sword), Kusari (chain- flexible weapons), Kusarifundo (weighted chain-flexible weapons), Jutte (truncheon), Tessen (iron fan), Sasumata (two-horned polearm), Nagehari (thrown weapons), Sōjutsu (spear), Kusarigama (sickle and chain), Tekken ("iron fist" similar to Western brass-knuckles) and Taijutsu (unarmed defense), among others.

Hybrid disc

Examples include Tekken Hybrid, Macross Frontier: Itsuwari no Utahime and Lagrange: The Flower of Rin-ne -Kamogawa Days-.

Jun Kazama

Common Sense Media said of Jun in Tekken: The Motion Picture that her character and morals give the film its only "shred of redeeming social value".

Kazuya Mishima

Kazuya appears in the short film Street Fighter x Tekken: The Devil Within portrayed by Mark Musashi.

Lars Alexandersson

Outside Tekken, he is also featured as a playable character in the fighting game, Naruto Shippuden: Ultimate Ninja Storm 2 and in his alternate Tekken 6 costume designed by Naruto creator Masashi Kishimoto.

Lee Chaolan

Before the events of the original Tekken, Heihachi sent Lee to the U.S. to handle the Zaibatsu's operations there, where he studied martial arts alongside Paul Phoenix and Marshall Law.

Mark Lenard

Lenard provided Sarek's voice in the Star Trek: The Animated Series episode "Yesteryear" (1973), and played an ill-fated Klingon Captain in Star Trek: The Motion Picture (1979).

Miniature effect

The resurgence of the science fiction genre in film in the late 1970s saw miniature fabrication rise to new heights in such films as Close Encounters of the Third Kind, (1977), Star Wars (also 1977), Alien (1979), Star Trek: The Motion Picture (1979) and Blade Runner (1982).

Reiko Chiba

She also did a cameo voice appearance as herself in the anime movie Fatal Fury: The Motion Picture, performed the voice of Cham Cham in the Samurai Shodown video game series, and had a spot in the nightly radio show Akihabara Young Denkikan.

Soulcalibur II

The home versions of the game feature Necrid, a new character created by Todd McFarlane, and one of three platform-exclusive characters: Heihachi Mishima from Tekken on the PlayStation 2, Link from The Legend of Zelda on the GameCube and Spawn from the comic book series by McFarlane on the Xbox.

Space Force

Cues from Logan's Run, Outland, and Capricorn One can be heard in series one, while music from The Wind and the Lion, Star Trek: The Motion Picture, Gremlins and Alien can be heard in series two.

Starlog

Starlog was one of the first publications to report on the development of the first Star Wars movie, and it also followed the development of what was to eventually become Star Trek: The Motion Picture.

Survival Tobita

Mokujin Ken was a tree-like figure based on the character Mokujin from the Tekken video game series.

Tekken 3 Original Sound Tracks

The soundtrack of Tekken 3 is mostly composed of big beat music, with the songs composed by Nobuyoshi Sano, Keiichi Okabe, Hiroyuki Kawada, Minamo Takahashi and Yu Miyake; the composers were inspired by artists like The Prodigy, Chemical Brothers, Lunatic Calm, The Crystal Method, Underworld and Coldcut.

Tekken 6

Play UK gave Tekken 6 a 94 stating it as "an intense, tactical and utterly brilliant fighting game, perfect for anyone with even a fleeting interest in the genre".

On October 23, 2009, Namco Bandai released a Tekken 6 themed game space in the North American version of the PlayStation 3's online community-based service, PlayStation Home.

Tekken Tag Tournament

Tekken Tag Tournament was originally released as an arcade game in 1999 before it was ported to the PlayStation 2 in 2000.

A remastered version of the game titled Tekken Tag Tournament HD was released for PlayStation 3 in November 2011, as part of a Tekken Hybrid disc which also includes the 3D movie, Tekken: Blood Vengeance, and a demo version of Tekken Tag Tournament 2.

These graphics ran using the Tekken 3 PCB board, based on the PlayStation hardware.

Tekken Tag Tournament 2

On June 5, 2012 at E3, Namco Bandai announced a partnership with American rapper Snoop Dogg for content for Tekken Tag Tournament 2.

In the U.S, people that pre-ordered Tekken Tag 2 from GameStop would receive the DLC for Angel and Kunimitsu as well as the bikini outfits, the Snoop Dogg stage and a 'girl power' poster of Nina and Anna Williams.

The Wilby Conspiracy

The Wilby Conspiracy was also the western film debut of Indian actress Persis Khambatta, who would appear in Star Trek: The Motion Picture and with Rutger Hauer in Nighthawks.

When Games Attack

Each puppet would pick one of two video games that were similar such as Tekken vs Virtua Fighter or Grand Theft Auto vs True Crime: Streets of LA.


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