Tekken: The Motion Picture

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Contents 1 Introduction 2 Story 3 Characters 4 YouTube Tekken: The Motion Picture Videos 4.1 "Tekken: The Motion Picture [1/6] " 4.2 "Tekken: The Motion Picture [2/6] " 4.3 "Tekken: The Motion Picture [3/6] " 4.4 "Tekken: The Motion Picture [4/6] " 4.5 "Tekken: The Motion Picture [5/6] " 4.6 "Tekken: The Motion Picture [6/6] " 5 Notable differences from game to film 6 Trivia 7 See Also

Introduction

Tekken: The Motion Picture is an anime movie based on the Tekken series, specifically the first two games, Tekken and Tekken 2.

Story

The film begins with a flashback featuring Kazuya Mishima, a child studying martial arts under his father. He meets a young girl named Jun Kazama, who is crying after seeing a bobcat kill a defenseless rabbit. When Kazuya offers to go fight the bobcat, Kazuya's father, Heihachi Mishima, appears and drags Kazuya away. To make his son prove his strength, Heihachi throws Kazuya into a deep ravine, but not before ripping a locket containing a picture of Kazuya's mother from his son's neck and tossing it aside.

Jun, who tried and failed to locate Kazuya, finds the locket and keeps it with her into adulthood.

On the day of the tournament, Kazuya and Jun fight their way through the other competitors on the island. Kazuya intends to fight his way to the center and kill his father, while Jun races to stop him. After catching up to him, Jun begins to make another appeal when they're attacked by monsters released by Lee, but they fight them off. Kazuya then continues on his way and quickly beats Lee in direct combat before squaring off against Heihachi.

The fighting is brutal, but Kazuya, who formed a pact with a devil to survive his fall into the ravine as a child, uses his demonic power to defeat his father. Before he can finish him off, however, Jun steps in one last time, and convinces Kazuya that he's going about things the wrong way. Kazuya is able to calm his spirit, and he takes mercy on his father. In the meantime, Lee, convinced that the Mishima Zaibatsu should be destroyed if he isn't allowed to inherit it, activates a self-destruct mechanism on the island. Kazuya, Jun and most of the other competitors are able to escape by ship, while Heihachi himself flees the island by air.

In a brief epilogue, Jun is by herself among some trees when her young son, Jin Kazama, who bears a strong resemblance to Kazuya, runs up to her, and they walk off together.

The other major subplot, which runs concurrently with the rest of the film, features Lei Wulong working as Jun's partner, who investigates the weapons lab located below the surface of the island with the help of the combat android Jack-2, who wants to cure a little girl of her illness. A few other fighters from the games, most notably Bruce Irvin, Baek Doo San, Michelle Chang, Anna Williams, Nina Williams, Prototype Jack, Roger, and Ganryu play small parts in the story. Most of the other game characters like King, Armor King, Yoshimitsu, Marshall Law, and Paul Phoenix appear in background cameos with no direct influence on the story.

Characters

• Jun Kazama
• Kazuya Mishima
• Lei Wulong
• Heihachi Mishima
• Lee Chaolan
• Jack-2
• Michelle Chang
• Anna Williams
• Nina Williams
• Bruce Irvin
• Dr. Boskonovitch
• Jane (she is young here)
• Jin Kazama (he is young here)

Minor Characters

• Paul Phoenix
• King
• Armor King
• Ganryu
• Baek Doo San
• Marshall Law
• Kuma
• Devil
• Roger
• Alex
• Prototype Jack
• Yoshimitsu

YouTube Tekken: The Motion Picture Videos

"Tekken: The Motion Picture [1/6] "

"Tekken: The Motion Picture [2/6] "

"Tekken: The Motion Picture [3/6] "

"Tekken: The Motion Picture [4/6] "

"Tekken: The Motion Picture [5/6] "

"Tekken: The Motion Picture [6/6] "

Notable differences from game to film

The Tekken motion picture takes several liberties with its source material. Along with combining events from the first two games in the series, it also rewrites important events and appearance of some of the characters.

• Jun and Kazuya met for the very first time as children. There is no evidence of this in the games.
• Anna Williams is given a rather gruesome death, but she remains alive and well in the fifth game in the series.
• Jack-2 is stated as the prototype while the Prototype Jacks are shown as the final version.
• There are 3 prototype Jacks.
• There are packs of Alexs instead of one. These don't wear the blue boxing gloves.
• At the conclusion of the tournament, Kazuya was not killed.
• Devil does not appear, but he made a short cameo as a light of evil and Jun is able sense it around Kazuya.
• Dr. Abel does not appear in the film, despite being an important character in Jack-2's storyline.
• Jack-2 gets destroyed by a closing door instead of Dr. Abel disabling him with a laser via satellite.
• Bruce, Anna and Ganryu are Lee's bodyguards instead of being Kazuya's bodyguards.
• Lee's fighting uniform does not appear and we don't know what happened to him at the conclusion of the tournament.
• Nobody seems to have won the tournament.
• Ganryu doesn't show feelings for Michelle.
• Many of the characters had minor alterations to hair color/style, as well as the outfits they wore at the tournament

Aside from its quality as an adaptation, Tekken is generally seen as a cult film or guilty pleasure to its relatively small group of supporters. Some fans also use the film to help explain how Kazuya and Jun conceived their son Jin, who would go on to become the lead protagonist of the video games in Tekken 3, since the video games have remained rather ambiguous on those details. Because of the number of liberties that the film takes with the storyline, the film cannot be considered completely canon, but the possibility that Jun and Kazuya's storyline as depicted in the film may share parallels with the video games remains open.

Trivia

• Some characters appeared in the opening sequence but not in the actual movie. They are: Wang Jinrei, Kunimitsu, Hwoarang, Ling Xiaoyu, Eddy Gordo, and Forest Law.
• Kuma made a short cameo on a tree.
• Jin Kazama appears as a child in the film's ending. His appearance is similar to Kazuya as a child. Jin is shown as an adult in the film's opening.
• Gon is in the background of the laboratory.
• The invitation card given to Jun is spelled "wellcome" instead of "welcome".
• Some parts of the film showed some what the games did not show.( e.g: Jun, Jin & Kazuya's childhood )

See Also

• Tekken (2009 Film)