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Street Fighter: The Legend of Chun-Li

2009 American film

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionSep 24, 2026
Entity authoritySource title only
Source-derived summary

Street Fighter: The Legend of Chun-Li is a 2009 American martial arts action film loosely based upon the Street Fighter video game series produced by Capcom. Directed by Andrzej Bartkowiak from a screenplay written by Justin Marks, the film serves as a non-canonical spin-off and theatrical tie-in to Street Fighter IV (2008). The story follows the quest of Street Fighter character Chun-Li, played by Kristin Kreuk, before the events of the original Street Fighter. The film co-stars Neal McDonough as M. Bison, Chris Klein as Charlie Nash, Michael Clarke Duncan as Balrog, and Black Eyed Peas member Taboo as Vega.

Editorial summary

The public source identifies “Street Fighter: The Legend of Chun-Li” as 2009 American film. This brief keeps that definition visible, then builds a research path around Street, Fighter and Legend.

Editorial reviewBest approached as a cultural-object dossier: authorship and date matter, but circulation and reception often explain the wider significance. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—2009, 2008—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. Its value is orientation rather than verdict, with Street, Fighter and Legend providing the first useful test.
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Why this record matters

A short description can identify a subject without explaining its stakes. For “Street Fighter: The Legend of Chun-Li”, the useful work is to connect “2009 American film” to the records capable of establishing context and consequence.

Evidence profile

Object files, edition statements, performance records and contemporary criticism preserve different stages of the work’s history. The source revision retrieved here is dated Sep 24, 2026. The first chronological checks are 2009 and 2008.

Critical limits

Later fame can flatten the distinction between original context, subsequent adaptation and institutional collecting history. The lead is largely declarative, so disagreement and counter-evidence require a deliberate search beyond the opening account. Authority statements aid reconciliation but still require their own references, qualifiers and ranks to be checked.

How to read it

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  • Identifying works and editions
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  1. Establish the record: confirm the title “Street Fighter: The Legend of Chun-Li”, its source revision and the description used here.
  2. Expand the search: follow Street Fighter: The Legend of Chun-Li primary sources, Street Fighter: The Legend of Chun-Li archive and Street research across catalogues and specialist indexes.
  3. Test the account: compare the strongest cited source with the responsible institution’s current record and note any disagreement.

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  2. Where is authorship, date or provenance documented?
  3. How did later circulation or interpretation alter the work’s reception?
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This entry incorporates text from “Street Fighter: The Legend of Chun-Li” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.