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Tekken The Motion Picture-1-

An anime based on the fighting game franchise Tekken, specifically the first two games. Originally released as a two-part OVA, the parts were edited together for the western release as a movie.

Multi-billionaire Heihachi Mishima is having a fighting tournament on the island which is the base of his operations. This attracts many fighters, including the Action Girl Jun Kazama and the policeman Lei Wulong who have come investigate Heihachi's suspected illegal activities - and Heihachi's wayward son Kazuya, who wants revenge for being left for dead in the past by him.

Jun and Lei decide to carry their mission separately, with her fighting in the tournament itself while he gathers the evidence they need to expose Heihachi's evil to the whole world and arrest him. On one hand, Jun firmly believes that Kazuya is a young boy she met in her past and she's also sure that he's been ensnared by a darkness only she can release him from, so she fights her way through the island while trying to approach him; Lei, on the other hand, explores the island in itself while Jun fights and soon makes some very disturbing discoveries that could pretty much bring the world to its knees in front of Heihachi's Mishima Zaibatsu. . .

Tropes used in Tekken the Motion Picture include:


  • Achey Scars: The famous scar on Kazuya's chest not only hurts, but sometimes it glows red.
  • Adaptation Decay: The movie's plot is loosely based on Tekken 1, but with the inclusion of characters (such as Jun, Baek, Bruce and Lei) who didn't debut until Tekken 2. On the whole, there are many changes to key aspects of the story, especially with regards to Lee's role in the tournament and the fact that it takes place on an island rather than across the world.
  • Adaptation Dye Job: Anna has dark brown hair in the games, but here it's black-blue.
  • Adaptational Heroism: Kazuya is a VERY angry Anti-Hero here, rather than the Villain Protagonist he is in the games.
  • Adaptational Jerkass: Lee is not exactly a peach in the Tekken games (albeit among the less dark members of the Mishima clan), but his assholery is bigger here.
  • Always Save the Boy - It’s Personal: Jun initially goes into the tournament with Lei to investigate Heihachi's corrupt deals, but as soon as she recognizes Kazuya as the boy from her past she instead decides to save him from his father and himself. Even if the cost is dying.
  • An Axe to Grind: Michelle tries to kill Heihachi by throwing an axe at him. He catches it with his teeth and bites it apart.
  • Anime Hair: Kazuya and Heihachi already had such hair in the games, but here it's amped Up to Eleven.
  • Anti-Hero: Kazuya, who's quite the asshole but is still less villainous than Lee and Heihachi.
  • Ascended Extra: Jun is pretty much The Protagonist, and Lei has a very important role too.
  • Babies Ever After: The last scene features Jun and her very young son, Jin.
  • Bad Dreams: Jun has these about her childhood meeting with Kazuya.
  • Big Ol' Eyebrows: Members of the Mishima family have some ridiculously huge eyebrows. Including Jin.
  • Bittersweet Ending: Jun is seen living peacefully with her son Jin and their animal friends in the forests of Yakushima Island, yet the boy's father is nowhere to be seen. . . but as they walk home, the wind blows and she senses an evil presence (all but spelled to be Ogre), yet doesn't tell Jin about it.
  • Broken Bird: Michelle Chang. Lei and Jun can't help notice how sad and troubled she looks, and as it turns out, she has GOOD reasons.
  • Brooding Boy, Gentle Girl: Jun is completely determined to be the Gentle Girl to Kazuya's Brooding Boy, nevermind her own outer lack of gentleness. He keeps pushing her away, and even warns her that he'll kill her if she interferes in his plan to kill Heihachi, but she won't budge. It doesn't really work until the very end, and the watcher likely knows that this WON'T end well for either of them (and their kid).
  • Cain and Abel: Kazuya (Anti-Heroic Abel) and Lee (Smug Snake Cain). Ironic, considering that in the games Kazuya is the actual Cain while Lee is more of a morally-grey Abel.
  • Chekhov's Gun: Kazuya's locket.
  • Childhood Friend Romance: Subverted: Kazuya and Jun met only once as children, and now that they're adults Jun is more focused on stopping Kazuya from fully falling into the darkness rather than romancing him.
  • Convection, Schmonvection: Lava flows that are setting the whole island on fire? Just a minor inconvenience to those of martial arts!
  • Cry Cute: Kazuya tears up when Jun finally manages to give him back the locket with the picture of his mother.
  • Deal with the Devil: How Kazuya survived his fall sixteen years ago. It was eventually Retcon-ned in the games, but still.
  • Death by Adaptation: Anna, Lee and Jack-2.
    • Also, Michelle’s mother: in the games she lives at least until after the second tournament, but here she dies offscreen at the hands of Heihachi’s mooks.
  • Demoted to Extra: Plenty of the fighters from the first and second games are only in the background. Out of that group only Bruce, Jack-2 and Michelle get some spotlight.
  • Despair Event Horizon: Kazuya crossed it as a child when Heihachi tossed him into the ravine, which led him to make his Deal with the Devil to live and enact his revenge.
    • Michelle crossed it in her backstory, when her village was destroyed and her loved ones were killed.
    • Lee had dedicated his whole life as Heihachi's adoptive son to one-up Kazuya and inherit the Zaibatsu. When Heihachi reveals that he always intended to make Kazuya his heir and Lee solely was his pawn, he. . . loses it.
  • Designated Girl Fight: Nina and Anna, unsurprisingly.
    • Averted by the other two ladies there, Michelle and Jun, since Michelle fights Kazuya instead.
  • Did Not Do the Research: There is much concern about Heihachi's creation of "multi-gene organisms". Most organisms are multi-gene organisms. (This may be a byproduct of a Blind Idiot Translation.)
  • Dropped a Bridge on Him: Anna gets eaten by a dinosaur, in front of an horrified Nina
  • Everything's Better with Dinosaurs: The invisible dinosaur bio-weapons.
  • Faux Action Girl: Jun is a borderline example, since she's more focused on intervening in Kazuya's fights so he won't kill his enemies and give into The Power of Hate, than fighting others directly. She does get some good moments like when she helps him fight Nina off, stops him from giving Michelle a killing blow, and stands up twice to Heihachi for Kazuya's sake, tho.
  • Getting Crap Past the Radar: Anna has her below mentioned Shower Scene while in Lee's very luxurious hotel suite. . . then they both talk while sitting on a bed AND wearing only bath robes. . . and then she kisses and pushes him on said bed while the camera stays put. . .
  • Gilded Cage: The luxe island resort where the fighters spend the night before the tournament, which Lei compares to a prison due to the tight surveillance.
  • Girl of My Dreams: Subverted: the boy in Jun's dreams was never a part of her subconscious, but someone she met 16 years ago.
  • Giving Someone the Pointer Finger
  • Good Is Not Nice: The movie makes Jun a kind-hearted yet serious and grumpy young woman with a bad case of No Social Skills. She seems to have mellowed out at the very end, probably because of Jin.
  • Handsome Lech: Jun's partner Lei gives this impression at first, but is clearly much more than that.
  • Heroic Sacrifice: Jack sacrifices himself so Lei, Jane and Dr. Bosconovitch can escape the doomed island, even saying in his last words that he wishes to reincarnate into a human.
  • Hopeless Suitor: Lei gives these vibes towards Jun.
  • Hot Mom: At the end, Jun is the mother of a boy no older than six or seven... and looks exactly the same.
  • Ill Girl: Jack's protegé, Jane. In fact, Jack comes to the island NOT to fight but to meet up with Dr. Bosconovitch and tell him to cure her from her sickness. Jun lampshades the trope via telling Lei that she can feel Jane's spirit fading as she and Jack are standing near to them. Bosconovitch does have enough research data to make a cure and gives her meds that help her out a bit, but it's said that it'll take some time to develop a definitive treatment. Since both of them survived, it's a given that she'll eventually be healed.
  • Island Base: Heihachi's.
  • A Minor Kidroduction: The film opens with Kazuya and Jun as children, riiiiiight before Heihachi grabs Kazuya and throws him down from a cliff. She remembers their meeting, he does not. For a while, and he doesn't remember everything until the very end.
  • Missing Mom: Kazumi Mishima, logically. Kazuya's locket, which Jun kept through the years, contains a picture of her and a baby Kazuya. When Jun finally manages to return it to him at the end, Kazuya seems to tear up.
    • When Jack found little Jane, it happened in the middle of a battlefield. She was sobbing over the corpse of a blonde woman who had just been shot dead, presumably her mother.
    • Michelle’s mother was one of the casualties of Heihachi’s razing of her village.
  • Morality Pet: Jun is determined to be this for Kazuya, no matter how many times he shoos her away. Like in the game, she realises that the darkness (read: Devil) has ensnared him and decides to release him from it - and here, she'll do it even if it costs her her life.
  • Nipple And Dimed: Averted, Anna’s nipples can be clearly seen in her Shower Scene.
  • No Name Given: Jane is never referred to by name.
  • The Power of Hate: Heihachi threw Kazuya into the ravine and even now encourages his loathing of his own self for his own benefit.
  • Pieta Plagiarism: At the very end, Paul carries a wounded Michelle like this. Few later, Kazuya is seen doing the same with Jun.
  • Psychic Powers: Jun exhibits some degree of Empathy, Telepathy and capacity to sense spirits.
  • Razor Floss: When Nina attacks Kazuya for the second time, she uses this to "make" an improvised gallow and hang him from it. Jun throws a certain locket at her and foils this, however.
  • Sailor Fuku: Jane wears an outfit that resembles one, sans scarf.
  • Self-Destruct Mechanism: When Lee realizes that he will never inherit Mishima Conglomerate, he loses it and starts up one.
  • Shoo the Dog: Kazuya, to Jun. Repeatedly. But she utterly refuses to be shooed away.
  • Shower Scene: Provided by Anna Williams.
  • Sibling Triangle: Lee invokes the trope by flirting with the Williams sisters in hopes to use their affections to his advantage, and DOES sleep with Anna after her Shower Scene.
  • Smug Snake: Lee.
  • Soft Water: Nina's first assassination attempt on Kazuya concludes with him throwing himself off an hotel's window and landing in the pool, playing this straight. As a bonus, it gives the viewers what's likely the only view in the whole franchise of Kazuya with his Anime Hair down.
  • Speed Stripes: Used on many fight scenes.
  • Strike Me Down with All of Your Hatred: Sorta. Kazuya is about to kill Jun for her repeated interferrence between him and Heihachi, and she pretty much dares him to do so.
  • Strong Family Resemblance: Jun's child Jin is very, VERY obviously fathered by Kazuya. Even those who have NOT played the games can see it.
  • Taking the Bullet: Jun throws self between Kazuya and Heihachi to protect the first, and gets punched in the stomach by the latter for it.
  • Tender Tears: When Kazuya has Jun on a Neck Lift for interferring with his and Heihachi's fight, he notices that she's crying and not out of fear... but for him.
  • Textile Work Is Feminine: Jun is seen knitting at the very end.
  • Title: the Adaptation
  • Tragic Keepsake: Kazuya's locket, which has a picture of him and his late mother Kazumi.
  • Tsundere: Jun is a bit of a non-romantic version to Lei.
  • The Unfavorite: Anna claims to have been this to her and Nina’s dad. Nina retorts that Anna killed him.
    • Lee, BIG TIME. Heihachi’s plans ALWAYS included making Kazuya his actual heir and grooming him to carry out his goal to destroy and remake the world. Lee, to no one’s shock, does NOT take the reveal well AT ALL.
  • Unflinching Walk: Kazuya pulls one at the end after defeating Heihachi - while carrying a passed out Jun in his arms.
  • Use Your Head: Kazuya and Heihachi butt their heads together during the climactic fight.
    • Earlier on, Kazuya also used this against Nina during her second assassination attempt on him.
  • Used to Be a Sweet Kid: Kazuya and Jun's childhood meeting has kid!Kazuya being rather gentle to kid!Jun... Flashforward some years and Kazuya's gentleness is gone. Jun lampshades it when she sees the grown-up Kazuya for the first time in 16 years, remembers their until then only encounter, and mentally notes that "now he has such a cold spirit..."
  • Villainous Breakdown: Lee has a gigantic one, coupled with a trip through the Despair Event Horizon.
  • Violently Protective Girlfriend: Jun is Kazuya's sort-of Love Interest but not his girlfriend, yet she's determined to keep him from falling victim to his darkness and to Devil. This certainly includes protecting him from enemies if it's needed, like when she throws a locket at Nina when she catches him in Razor Floss and that gives him a chance to fight back, or when she verbally rips Heihachi a new one for what he has done to his son.
  • Visible Invisibility: Used to show the experimental dinosaur bio-weapons.
  • Well-Intentioned Extremist: Heihachi tells Jun that he wants to rebuild the world from zero since it's too corrupted and tainted by the humans' greed, evil and desire for power. Jun doesn't buy it at all and calls him a monster, accusing him of grooming Kazuya for his plans.
  • Wise Beyond Their Years: Young Jun is portrayed as this in the flashback to her and Kazuya's meeting, refusing his offer to kill the bobcat that killed the rabbit she was crying over and telling him about the gentleness of rabbits and the circle of life. Keep in mind that neither of them seems to have been much older than 6 in these days.
  • You Killed My Father: Michelle's motivation to fight is that Heihachi burned down her hometown and killed her parents. Kazuya seems to feels slight sympathy when she tells him about it during their fight but still soundly defeats her, verbally humiliates her, and if not for Jun he would've killed her there.
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