Ryu Hoshi is a protagonist? in the 1994 film, Street Fighter. He is played by Byron Mann.
Facts[]
- Is given the surname "Hoshi", even though the arcade quiz-board game Capcom World 2 revealed Ryu's surname to be Takegami. I guess Capcom doesn't care which is why the surname is obscure.
- Dean Cain back in the early-to-mid 90s is the only actor I can envision to portray the role of Ryu, not this guy!
- Ryu is depicted in this movie as being somewhat similar in appearance to Fei Long, a character that the filmmakers left out for being "too generic"... So they made things worse for Ryu's character instead along with losing the signature hachimaki.
- Along with Ken, rips off arms dealers by selling them Nerf toys.
- Steals all of Vega's crowd heat because of his beefcake-looking physique, despite Vega's actor having biggest muscles in this scene, Ryu in the games is actually more muscular than Vega.
- As seen in the cage fight, Ryu has Star Wars Kid-level melee-weaponry skills that would make the actual Vega from the games laugh his ass off.
- The supposed "Hadou-ken" (Wave Motion-Fist) that appears to be an explosive flash that he executed on Vega, is later used as one of Sakura Kasugano's moves in Capcom vs. SNK 2.
- He finishes Vega off by using what is supposed to be the "Tatsumaki Senpuukyaku" (Hurricane Kick), but all it really was is a standing roundhouse done while imitating the actual move.
- Goes on to get his ass kicked by Catwoman 10 years later.
- Byron Mann was once pick-pocketed while playing his own Ryu character in a Street Fighter game in an arcade.