Tekken

Plot synopsis:
Mere moments after Jin Kazama's departure from the Hon-Maru dojo, G Corporation helicopters approach and begin deploying Jack-4s pods into the building. Heihachi Mishima and his son, Kazuya, are awoken to a squadron bursting through the walls. At first, the two battle the Jacks together until Kazuya leaves Heihachi for dead while escaping. The Jacks hold down Heihachi while one activates its detonator, creating a huge explosion that seemingly kills Heihachi. The only witness to the event is Raven, a mysterious ninja clad in black, who relays Heihachi's death to his superiors.
Heihachi's death is declared all over the world with everyone foreseeing the end of the Mishima Zaibatsu. However, somebody else takes over the company from the shadows and business continues as usual. Two months later, the King of Iron Fist Tournament 5 is announced. Meanwhile, Jin is plagued by nightmares triggered by his Devil Gene and tries to end it by entering the tournament. His father, Kazuya deduces that the Jack-4s were sent by G Corporation to assassinate him and decides to enter the tournament to take revenge against whoever had sent them.
The secret sponsor of the tournament and owner of the Mishima Zaibatsu is finally revealed to be Jinpachi Mishima, the father of Heihachi who was confined below Hon-Maru by Heihachi after a coup forty years ago. However, he was possessed by the Devil entity who granted him insurmountable power, after which he broke out of Hon-Maru during the Jacks' attacks. Jinpachi, in his last act of morality, had announced the tournament in the hope that someone would be able to kill him before his potential reign of terror could start. Jin makes it to the final round and faces his great-grandfather in a ferocious duel. Ultimately, Jin manages to defeat Jinpachi, who dissolves into dust and disappears shortly after, with his wish being fulfilled. Jin, after defeating him, becomes the new head of Mishima Zaibatsu, unaware that Heihachi survived the explosion and is working to retake the Zaibatsu.

Tags: violence

Review:
I personally am a huge fan of the Tekken series (specifically 3 and Tag Tournament), and when I saw that there was a Tekken anime, I was thrilled.
This movie had very little redeeming qualities to it: the characters were mostly annoying (ie- Lee Chaolan, Nina and Anna, Heihachi, Jun Kazama), and as has been mentioned before, the fighting and character development were minimal.
Seemed like the most interesting character was Jack and the little girl, though it seemed a little corny and done before (the whole machine learning how to feel, etc...).
What also bothered me was that some of the more interesting characters from the series (Paul Phoenix, King and Armor King, Yoshimitsu, etc...) were in it for about 5 seconds in the background in the final scene.
This movie gets a 2 for effort and the couple half-interesting scenes with Jack..
The beginning of the movie was the best part because it was giving the information of the story.
The thing that really made me mad was why show characters from Tekken 3 at the opening credits if they weren't in the rest of the movie.
Everyone had a story to tell in that game, but they only centered it on Jun and Kazuya.
I understand that in game story he was obsessed about controlling the Mishima Zaibatsu, but he would never go as far to kill himself and and destroy the company so no one else would get it.
Like I said before the only thing that was good was the information.
In 1993, NAMCO released the fighting video game 'Tekken' about a martial arts contest held by the powerful Mishima corporation.
It was extremely successful, and was followed by the greatest fighting game of all time-- named (what else?) 'Tekken 2.'  At this point, there have been four more sequels, including a Tag Tournament and a Game Boy version.
Of all the characters in the game, only Kazuya, Heihachi, Lee, and Jun get any decent screen time (Lei and Jack-2 are the only others that get any real time at all).
A couple of Lee's scenes are interesting and there is one attempted assassination on Kazuya by Nina that's sort of okay, but otherwise this is a badly written, boring anime flick.
The script is so bad that the writers call 'Tekken' a mysterious thing that doesn't make sense.
Tekken means Iron Fights, and the geniuses who wrote this piece of crud don't understand that this is supposed to make just a little bit of sense.
The voice acting (I am talking about the English version) is awful, the direction is pointlessly poor, and the music score wanders between okay and really, really annoying.
First of all, the cons are that it is far too short, seemingly will lead into a sequel yet at the same time will not, and most of the minor characters only show up and do not interact with the story in any way.However, for the most part the pros beat out the cons.
For one, the story does go into Kazuya, the main character of Tekken 1 and 2's story, the dubbing isn't horrible (Except for Law), the soundtrack is amazing with Stabbing Westward, Offspring, and some other late 90's rock artists, and often fits with the action.Overall, if u like the game, see it first then think about buying it from there, if u haven't played the game, its a good rent, but you probably wont want to buy it.
From the video game 'Tekken' comes an anime movie, 'Tekken: The Motion Picture'.
On their journeys they encounter some strange enemies and of course hidden secrets are revealed.Although the animation is not as good as we normally see in this kind of movies there still is some energy, especially in the fighting sequences.
This is not a very good movie but since it is not that long, less than an hour, it was quite watchable.
There are better movies from the genre but for only an hour there is a good chance you will like it..
If you're a Tekken fan, you'll like this movie..
This movie is about a rich man, Heihachi Mishima, who is obsessed with destroying the devil in order to create a better new world.
Kazuya shows up indeed but as he attempts to kill his father he is consistently stopped by Jun, a girl from his childhood, who was there when Heihachi threw him off the cliff.
Now is there at the tournament and she won't stop at nothing to release Kazuya from the devil within him.Although this Anime is not the exactly best, I think they did a very good job with the story.
Considering the amount of Tekken characters in existence (52, including the ones that are not in the game)they managed to get many of the characters in it without harming the continuity of the story.
The problem is that it tries to have a good story about a few of the tekken characters.
Just character development, something thats unnecessary in a movie like this.
I hadn't heard of a film version of Tekken before, and it didn't look too promising, but as Tekken 3 is my all time favourite fighting game I thought I'd check it out - A genuine waste of an hour of my life I will never get back.I don't usually post reviews on IMDb, but I just had to warn anyone who felt as curious as I did about this that it WILL disappoint you unbelievably.
The voice acting is horrendous, each actor doing the worst they could from a clunky script that has each character stand there and explain there entire back story in between fighting.
The few fights there were managed to conquer the market in pure dull punch and kick tedium.The story itself barely goes through any of the characters.
Obviously we get the main story between Heihachi and his son, but favourites such as Paul are left to pose all "fierce" in ensemble shots while dull characters such as Lei steal all the limelight.Now for some good news.
Unfortunately, all I could think of was to work the "so bad it's good" angle, and if that's what you're after there are a few unplanned giggles here and there from the use of the boxing-gloved kangaroo and some invisible dinosaurs (don't ask).
Don't give your hopes up, though, as these will evoke no more than minor chuckles from the embarrassment you will feel for the people that thought up such a ridiculous mismatch of illogical plot and, in the female lead, the most irritating protagonist this side of...well, ever.In all, the only movie I've ever seen which I would actually pay money to avoid seeing ever again.
WHAT HAPPENED!?The movie starts oddly enough with Kazuya Mishima getting tossed off a cliff by his father, Heihachi which didn't really do anything for this movie.The only real good parts about this movie were the music in the English version, (good choices) and a shower scene and implied sex scene between Anna Williams and Lee Chowlan.Other than that...
Most notably, for a movie based on a fighting game, there doesn't seem to be very much fighting.
When the characters aren't 'fighting' they're yammering on about the hilariously lame plot which involves some kind of devil and an island and the end of the world or something.
Speaking of laughing, one of the major action sequences involves the characters fighting freaking INVISIBLE DINOSAURS.
They also managed to work the stupid boxing kangaroo into the story.
I caught this movie on cable with the terrible English dub, which gives it another point on the Hilariously Bad scale.
Tekken is not a game that would translate to the screen very well.
First of all Tekken has 20+ characters, most of which have little connection to one another so in order to get everyone on screen for a remotely decent length of time it would be a giant montage of fight scenes (because no one is about to sit through the slow development of all 20 characters out of which only 5 are worth talking about).
If they stuck with the Tekken 1 premise  a simple tournament and a simple father/son rivalry, this would have worked much better.
They should have focused in on Kazuya's past, his rise throughout the tournament, the very beginnings of his dealing with Devil, and his confrontation with Heihachi.
The narrative could stick with Kazuya as he faces off with different people and occasionally jump to other fights by the main characters thereby incorporating them into the overall story as well - then it might be worth watching.That would leave the door open for a Tekken anime sequel, it would keep the non-Tekken literate viewers informed as to the whole mythology around Tekken, and it would have been an overall better film.
But nope, they tried to pack everything into one film  even Tekken 2's joke characters which had no place in the game, much less the movie.
So we get lots of characters on screen who ramble and add nothing to anything and hardly ever fight despite being based on a fighting game.Another point  for one I did not like for the quality of this anime's drawing.
Add to that the fact all of Tekken's characters previously have been strictly CG-rendered which makes a drawn interpretation feel like a fish out of water; looking across the characters I found myself saying, `That's not Lei Wu Long; that can't be Kazuya .
Final thoughts: Tekken isn't a game that lends itself too terribly well to anything other than its own medium.
It's shallow as a fighting game, so it's no surprising that the anime adaptation reflects this so well..
It encapsulates the basic story that we already know and adds elements that have either been kept from us or doesn't really work in game form.
I'm a huge fan of the Tekken series, as well as of anime movies, so it was only natural that I would see this film eventually.
Here's my quick take on it.The Tekken video games, despite popular belief, have very deep storylines.
The ones that did last long enough to have a real storyline were horrendously twisted from their video game counterparts', again, all in an effort to fit as much as humanly possible into an hour long movie.The Tekken part of the movie was mangled, but sadly, also was the anime part, which could have been it's redeeming quality.
However, the movie takes these elements to such a level that they appear to be almost a charicature of anime.
When dinosaurs get released all over the island...well, things just get ridiculous in that department.With all the bashing this movie has received from other critics and me, don't think you necessarily have to avoid it at all costs, either.
There are some good, action-packed scenes that make it almost worth suffering through the bad ones.
All in all, Tekken: The Motion Picture is good, campy fun that should be seen by all fans of the games once...and only once..
Tekken the movie is based on the namco game with the same name.
It features some of the best fighters in the world, brought together to compete for the title as best martial arts fighter in the world in the "Iron fist tournament".After just watching the film I feel like the producers could have done so much more with this film, it felt incomplete.
The character development never worked out, the voice actors ( refering to the English version ) where awfull.
Even though the animation was acceptable, it was far from good.The story was thin and never introduced you to most of the characters from the game.I would give it a 4 out of 10, sadly but true it doesn't deserve much more..
I've played the Tekken games.
They are fun, visually stimulating, in places madly complicated, but always worth playing.This movie, on the other hand, is a waste of time and effort, on both the creator's part and the viewers.To begin with, there are many characters in the Tekken game which a 60-minute movie cannot hope to address appropriately.
We are given glimpses of some characters who are key to the game's storyline, but in the movie?
The English dubbing borders on awful, the dialogue repetitive and prone to spoon-feeding the viewer the bleeding obvious, and the soundtrack in places misplaced.There were some nice ideas in the storyline, but it's so badly executed that you can't enjoy it, even as a fan of the game series.3/10.
The script was poor and really cheesy but the animation was good and the fight scenes weren't too bad.
But the thing is, why won't people ever learn that movies based on video games don't work at all?
It really annoys me, GAH!This crap movie is about the character Kazuya Mishima, before he became Jin's father, wants to kill his dad, Heihachi Mishima after he almost killed Kazuya on purpose but the only way to kill him, is by joining the Tekken fighting tournament on an island guarded by the military.I think you'd rather be playing the game than watch this garbage because TEKKEN: THE MOTION PICTURE gives you the reason why you should never watch movies that are based on video games.There's a saying that I made up called 'you've played the game, now don't watch the movie'..
Manages to be worse than the live action movie..
Three years later, ASCII and studio deen collaborated on "Tekken: the motion picture" in a possible bid to replicate the success of the previous video game anime adaptation.
The story somewhat follows that of the first two Tekken games: Special investigator and martial arts expert Jun Kazama is made to join the....."Tekken" tournament hosted by the mysterious Mishima corporation under Heihachi Mishima.
this anime takes place in SINGAPORE!!), Kazuya the rogue son of Heihachi Mishima is attacked by an assassin Nina.
Running at 60 minutes, it barely has enough time to develop the main story of Jun and Kazuya.
To make things worse, other fighters like Lee (who is jealous of his brother Kazuya and wants to kill him), jack (who's story seems ripped from Terminator 2 about the machine who values human life) and Nina hog the screen time with their own little story arcs.
It does not do justice to the quality of anime movies which are meant to have a bigger budget.
Character movements are lazily animated, frame rate is barely adequate and the fights lack a certain energy.
For example, Conversations involve a long pan over a still scene, Motion lines on a still picture and there are even some repeated scenes thrown in.Fans thinking that this could not be worse than the recent live action Tekken movie, think again.
Though the characters look exactly like they do in the game, the entire thing is ludicrous.
Even the final duel between Kazuya and his father is sadly anti-climatic.Tekken The motion picture fails in every way to mimic the success of Street Fighter The Animated movie despite even lifting some scenes wholesale from that anime: A nude shower scene, an attempted assassination in a bedroom and even a sumo wrestler character that parodies Street Fighter character E Honda.
Overall a major disappointment, not even worth the time to watch on youtube.2/10 for this horrid let down.An extra point since its set in Singapore for 3/10.
Indeed, how well can you do a story based on a game where you hit the other guy, and there's a cast of 20-30 fighters?
And even if the story is coherent, is it good?
Tekken normally has about 20-30 characters and they only concentrated on only 9 of them and more on Kazuya, Heihachi, jun, Lei, Lee, Jack while smaller roles were given to Nina, Anna, Michelle and Roger and Bruce.
the movie was supposed to be as good as the game but it wasn't most of everyones favorite characters like king or Yoshimitsu were only shown for a second i mean if you'd blink once you'd miss 10 of them.
the plot for Kazuya and Jun was very well but nothing was said about the others it was like they never existed.
The animation in Tekken is all digital, but since it's done by GONZO, it looks dull and boring.
You'd think that Namco could find someone a little better to handle the adaptation of their flagship fighting series-- like maybe Masami Obari.
Tekken: The Motion Picture is based on a popular sort of arcade fighting games and a series of console ports as well.
Anime and even live action films based on such fighters are quite common, ranging from series like Street Fighter, to movies like Mortal Kombat and everything in between.
Tekken:The Motion Picture falls somewhere in the "they don't" category.Before I get to the English version problems I'll start with the animation itself.
For the most part the movie plays well with only a few moments of very noticeable poor work.
At a mere 60min, Tekken could have seriously used an additional 30 min of fighting and development.
ADV does at least keep a good stable of talent and each character has a distinctive voice that fits to one degree or another.
Young Kazuya and Jun have a opening comment that will be replayed several times throughout the movie.
Kazuya is hurled from a cliff by his father, Heihachi Mishima and left for dead.
Jun is now a member of this force and is by chance mysteriously invited to the Tekken tournament along with wise cracking inter-pol agent Lei WuLong.
We get to see some cameos from main and side characters of the game (Looks to all be Tekken 2 crew,) and some sparring along the way to the climax, which is slightly anti-climatic.Good for a rental or for those who must collect everything Tekken.
But do give it a try if you like fighter anime.