TEKKEN: Blood Vengeance

TEKKEN: Blood Vengeance (2011)

鉄拳 ブラッド・ベンジェンス

The power to change everything. A fate they were not prepared for.

Set in the rich Tekken universe, Tekken: Blood Vengeance 3D follows Xiaoyu Ling, seasoned martial artist and high school student, tasked by the G Corporation to infiltrate an international school in Kyoto to gather information on the mysterious student Shin Kamiya. Before she can make any progress in the investigation, Shin is kidnapped by an unknown assailant. Digging deeper into Shin’s background in an attempt to rescue him, Xiaoyu learns about the frightening underbelly of the Mishima Zaibatsu. Jin Kazama, Kazuya Mishima… and the late Heihachi Mishima’s conspiracy that’s stained with blood.

Date of release
2011-07-26
TMDB
6.8 / 10 (236)
Runtime
1h 40m
Genres
Action, Animation, Science Fiction
Director
Youichi Mouri

Casting

Interesting facts

  • Based on: Tekken

Tekken: Blood Vengeance is a 2011 Japanese animated science fiction martial arts film directed by Yōichi Mōri from a screenplay by Dai Satō, based on the video game series Tekken published by Namco Bandai Games. The film places focus on the young martial artist Ling Xiaoyu, who investigates experiments involving a supernatural curse related with the Mishima family, while befriending a robot named Alisa Bosconovitch. The two meet the test subject Shin Kamiya, who is being sought by his former friend Jin Kazama and his father Kazuya Mishima, but is also being used by Heihachi Mishima to set a new family fight.

Production

Development of the movie started in January 2010. Namco's Tekken team had wanted to do a 3D movie after the creation of the CG opening for Tekken 6's scenario campaign. Katsuhiro Harada explained the success of Tekken 3 by saying that by that installment, the team was able to create CGI scenes for every character as well as how fans demanded to know more of the cast.

Director Yōichi Mōri said CG facial animations contain a lot of information, so he was worried about the post-recording. He wanted the visuals to illustrate the characters' personalities properly. Mōri requested Takayuki Takeya, who is famous designing Devilman and Kamen Rider, to redesign the Devils featured in the game to give a more "sinister yet beautiful" design the audience give a different impression from the game in order to attract more…

In regards to the voice acting, Harada explained that a new one was created due to the differences the movie has with the games; In the latest games every character spoke their own language and understood each other regardless of difference. The film was given two languages: Japanese and English. As a result, several new actors performed the roles of the returning characters.

Harada provided input when it came to action scenes, sound and mouse. Dai Satō is the screenplayer who was chosen by Harada to bring a more creative scenario, thus leading Satō to have more freedom. The director was Yōichi Mōri. With these staff members, Harada was confident the movie would be successful.

When the project began, Harada originally wanted all the characters to make an appearance. However, due to need of screentime, the movie would have lacked any coherent narrative as a result. This led to the usage of fewer characters. In the games Harada says the story primarily focuses on the rivalries in the Mishima clan.

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