Street Fighter - The Legend of Chun-Li is a movie based upon the old Capcom Arcade game Street Fighter and its numerous sequels, and in particular the first (and for a long time only) female character in the video games, Chun-Li. While Street Fighter is certainly a game with international flavor, racism is perhaps the last thing that one would think about when sitting down to watch this movie. Unfortunately, this film is rife with very troubling depictions and ideas that border on being outrightly racist and exploiting tensions between Asian-American and African-American communities.

Chun-Li’s Transformation into the American Girl Next Door

One of the first somewhat jarring differences between the movie and the video game that demonstrates the problematic role of race in the movie is that Chun-Li’s mother is seemingly a white American expatriate, and Chun-Li herself seems to have American citizenship.

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