Showing posts with label Street Fighter. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Street Fighter. Show all posts

Sunday, December 26, 2010

Etsuko Shihomi (Shihomi Etsuko)

A protege of Sonny Chiba and member of his Japan Action Club stunt team, Sue Shiomi starred in a number of genre films in the 1970s-80s including four Sister Street Fighter films as well as all three of the original Street Fighter series starring Chiba!
She retired from acting and stuntwork in 1986. Her daughter is actress Ayane Nagabuchi

Noted for being one of the best female stunt / fight performers in the business, Sue also performed well in roles that required no action ability, like Esmeralida in Message from Space.

Genre appearances include...

Monday, October 25, 2010

Ming-Na Wen (Aanes/Zee)

Also known as "Ming-Na" or "Ming Wen", she has one of the more distinctive voices in the business, as shown by the extensive amount of animation voice-over work she's done in both tv and film!
Ming's demonstrated her acting chops in The Joy Luck Club and ER and her action prowess in the first Street Fighter film and Push (which is, ironically, opening shortly before the new Street Fighter film debuts).
Note: I complained about her lack of fighting ability in Street Fighter, but she has improved, as shown by her performanaces in Vanished and Push!
UPDATE: Ming's been cast as Agent Melinda May in Joss Whedon's S.H.I.E.L.D. TV pilot!

Genre credits include...
Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. (Agent Melinda May)
StarGate Universe aka SGU (Camille Wray)
Push (Emily Hu)
Prom Night[2008] (Dr. Elisha Crowe)
Vanished (Agent Lin Mei)
Kingdom Hearts II[VG] / Mulan II/ Mulan/ House of Mouse (Fa Mulan)
The Batman (Detective Ellen Yin)
Spawn 3: Ultimate Battle/ Todd McFarlane's Spawn(Jade / Lisa Wu)
Final Fantasy: the Spirits Within/ Aki's Dream (Dr. Aki Ross)
Street Fighter/ Street Fighter the Movie[VG] (Chun-Li Zang)
Vanishing Son II / Vanishing Son IV (Mai)
StarQuest aka Terminal Voyage aka Star Voyager (Han)

Check out..
Ming-Na's Official Site
Ming-Na on Twitter
Other actress to play Fa Mulan:
Lea Salonga performed all of Mulan's singing to Ming's voice acting in the various Mulan films.
Other actresses to play Chun-Li include:
Kristen Kreuk in Street Fighter: the Legend of Chun-Li
Chingmy Yau in Future Cops
(and, no, I'm not going to list all the actresses who did voice work for Chun-Li's anime and video game appearances. You can Google them...)

Thursday, April 15, 2010

Kristin Laura Kreuk

Kirsten has a good acting range, and handled the action sequences in the Street Fighter: the Legend of Chun-Li adquately.
I didn't expect Michelle Yeoh-level stuntwork.
Kirsten looked convincing in the medium shots and closeups.
At least she wasn't worse than Ming-Na in the 1994 flick! (Cute, but terrible fighting skills!)

Currently, she's starring on the CW in the remake of the 1990s series Beauty and the Beast.
While I'm hoping it'll last, making the so-called "beast" a handsome guy with a scar and a temper instead of a creature who Catherine helps tame his beastly tendencies with her love indicates a serious lack of faith in the audience to accept a physically-unattractive, but intelligent and emotionally-open, man as a romantic lead the way fans of the original series did.

Trivia: Kristen as Lana Lang, played opposite Annette O'Toole (who had played Lana in Superman III) as Martha Kent in Smallville, marking one of the few times two people who played the same non-costumed character appeared together onscreen. (Yes, there have been episodes of series where, for example, Adam West or Buster Crabbe appeared opposite newer versions of Batman or Buck Rogers, but how often did actors playing the two generations of supporting characters appear together?)
Genre appearances include:
Beauty and the Beast (Catherine Chandler)
Chuck (Hannah)
Ben Hur (Tizrah)
Street Fighter: the Legend of Chun-Li(Chun-Li Huang)
Legend of EarthSea(Tenar / Arha)
Smallville(Lana Lang-Luthor)
Snow White: Fairest of Them All(Snow White)
Other actresses to play Catherine Chandler include:
Linda Hamilton in Beauty and the Beast (1987-1990)

Other actresses to play Chun-Li include:
Ming-Na Wen as Chun-Li Xang in Street Fighter(1994)
Chingmy Yau as Chun May in Future Cops

Other actresses to play Lana Lang include:
Annette O'Toole in Superman III
Diane Sherry in Superman: the Movie
Emily Procter in Lois & Clark: the New Adventures of Superman
Stacey Hadiuk in Superboy(1988-92)
Bunny Henning in The Adventures of Superboy (1961) [UnSold Pilot]

Other actresses to play Tizrah:
Cathy O'Donnell in Ben-Hur(1959)
Kathleen Kay in Ben-Hur(1925)

Other actress to play Tenar / Arha:
Mariska Hargitay in Tales of EarthSea