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ryu does't look japanese in the games or cartoon


although ryu is from japan he doesn't look like an average japanese man in the game, when people make suggestions for him they choose actors with an oriental background and they don't look a thing like him but to be honest someone like tom cruise has the right look for him as he has a kind of manga type face if that makes any sense?

anyone remember the first street fighter when Ryu had red hair?

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They did make a Street Fighter film, and Ryu was played by a guy from Hong Kong I believe, named Byron Mann.

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The character 'fei long' actually looks oriental from the games and anime film, is there any history of ryu's parents because i always assumed he was half japanese and half white (Not everyone is fully japanese in japan), look at vega, how many white skined blonde guys is there in spain compared to tanned dark haired guys, not many but it still happens. Street fighter the movie got the cast totally wrong for that film and should of chose a more suitable cast that actually looked straight from the games and manga, if sin city could get actors that looked stright from the comics then why can't they do the same with street fighter

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just checked kens bio and it says He is 3/4 Japanese and 1/4 American; his father is half-white and half-Japanese, while his mother is full-blood Japanese. He has dark hair, which he dyes blonde, and flared black eyebrows.

Why the hell did they get a mexican guy to play him in the movie?

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Man this sucks!

Ken's a Jap! Man those Japs really hate Americans and Arabs.......Ow well I guess you can't help it they do suck!heh-heh

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Wow man! take it easy.
All I'm saying is, that you don't see Turks or morocs and the American people are stereo-types. Like the soldier boy Alex and Balrog the boxer and the others are girls another story.
I think it's a shame that ken's only 1/4 American otherwise the thing going on between Ken and Ryu would've been a full east meets west thing.
And the last line thing well what I meant was they really don't like making A different type of American that's not stereo-typical or but Turks in their videogame because they don't like them that's what I meant.

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I don't care what anybody says. Ken is a white boy.

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HAHA yeah Ryu does look like Tom Cruise

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Kim Kap Hwan from fatal fury is the one that looks like tom cruise

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I remember reading up the ryu is part German on his fathers side and his mother is Japanese.

P.S. in the end when ryu fires the hadouken he does look like tom cruise in a sense i saw that look of Tom Cruise as well.

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It was 1 year ago that I found it so I forgot the site but all I remember is it actually did say ryu being part german. I do not get it neither but like i said it was quite a while ago.

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After watching this again, I am starting to see this. Except, Ryu is far more muscular than Tom.
I also wondered why, in my looking at reference for Ryu, why he rarely looks Japanese. His features are almost always drawn as Caucasian.

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