From The Hollywood Reporter · Brian Davids · · 40s
Kitao Sakurai's Street Fighter Journey
Kitao Sakurai built his film career with absurd humor and street-level action.
In brief
Kitao Sakurai built his film career with absurd humor and street-level action. Kitao Sakurai directed Street Fighter, the top American movie, using his early roles in quirky films. Originally reported by The Hollywood Reporter.
Kitao Sakurai's early role
In 1999, demonic rollerblading triplets armed with hockey sticks laid cross-checks on Bud Cort and Chris Rock in Kevin Smith's Dogma.
“demonic rollerblading triplets armed with hockey sticks laid cross-checks on the likes of Bud Cort and Chris Rock in Kevin Smith’s Dogma”
Sakurai's filmmaking shift
By 19, he dropped out of college and moved to New York to pursue independent filmmaking after the Cleveland Cinematheque's programming diet of Jackie Chan, Jet Li and Robert Altman.
Street Fighter success
Sakurai directed Street Fighter, the number-one movie in America, using his offbeat sensibility from early roles.
The one thing
Kitao Sakurai directed Street Fighter, the top American movie, using his early roles in quirky films.
