The controls to M. Bison's floating "desk" are identical to the controls of the Street Fighter video game.
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The film includes characters from the video games up to and including Super Street Fighter II: The New Challengers. Most notably absent is Fei Long, the video-game version of Bruce Lee. Rumor has it that the character of Captain Sawada was supposed to be Fei Long, but was changed and renamed because the producers felt that the video game character was "too generic." Sawada latter would appear in the video game based on this film Street Fighter: The Movie as well as in two episodes of the animated series Street Fighter: The Animated Series. This character shares his name with the last name of the actor who portrays him in the film (Kenya Sawada).
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The final scene of all the characters is a real-life recreation of an animation from the video game, where all the characters are on screen at the same time, and do their "win" animation.
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The final amphibious attack on M. Bison's compound, filmed on location in Thailand, was originally supposed to be an air assault. The Thai government wouldn't allow the use of its airspace for the large number of aircraft the scene would require, so the producers changed the final battle to a boat assault instead.
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Fabio was considered for the role of Vega.
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This film was dedicated to Raul Julia, who died after the film was completed.
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Despite negative reviews the movie did make a profit. It grossed 33 million domestically and 66 million worldwide, earning almost triple its production budget of 35 million.
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In the "Magic trick" scene where Chun Li is put in a barrel and then made to disappear, you can see the word 'Capcom' is printed in yellow on top of the orange barrel lid. Capcom is the team behind the Street Fighter video games
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During the fight between Ryu and Honda, a text on the wall is written in Esperanto : "Atenti incinerato - Esti zorga", which means : "Caution incinerator - Be careful".
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The fresco found in the training room of Bison's base (a tsunami) is a reproduction of the stamp found in Honda's stage, on the wall of a bathroom, in the original video game.
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Jean-Claude Van Damme turned down the role of Johnny Cage in Mortal Kombat to do this film.
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When Dhalsim is showing Bison his progress on Blanka, the footage that is seen on a monitor of a man being shot in the head was real, it was historic footage from World War II.
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This was Raul Julia's last theatrical movie. The closing title card reads: "FOR RAUL Vaya Con Dios". The translation from Spanish is "go with God".
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GOOFY HOLLER: Toward the end of the movie when the A.N. forces first arrive at Bison's fortress, one of Bison's troopers is sent flying from an explosion. This makes it one of the few non-animated and non-Disney films to use the sound effect.
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Guile is a U.S. Army colonel in the film. Most Anime' and video game versions name him as "Captain Guile, United States Air Force"
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The AN Forces Radio DJ is played by Adrian Cronauer, whose exploits as an Armed Forces Radio DJ in Vietnam were dramatized in Good Morning, Vietnam. He even gives a variation of his signature sign-on phrase: "Good morning, Shadoloo!"
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In the Japanese dubbed version of the film, the characters Balrog (the African-American boxer), Vega (the Spanish cage fighter) and Bison (the leader of Shadaloo) were all addressed by their western names, despite the fact that the three characters are named differently in Japan.
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Director Steven E. de Souza deferred his salary to pay for his cast.
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While Guile and Chun-Li wear their trademark costumes by the film's climax, they are actually different colors from the original Street Fighter II: The World Warrior variations. In the film, Guile is wearing his blue tank top/camouflage pants, which is based on his Street Fighter II Turbo variation. Chun-Li is wearing her red lady dragon dress, which is based on her Street Fighter II: Champion(ship) Edition variation.
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WILHELM SCREAM: First A.N. aid worker thrown into Bison's pit in the opening montage.
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There is an oil painting in Bison's private quarters of a frowning clown holding a cluster of balloons and wearing Bison's signature cap. This is a reference to the famous "Pogo the Clown" oil paintings done by the infamous serial killer John Wayne Gacy.
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In 2003, Jean-Claude Van Damme was actually working on a sequel, "Street Fighter II", for Universal, which had released the original. Several cast members had been hired to join him in the sequel, including his Universal Soldier co-star Dolph Lundgren in an unrevealed role, Australian actress Holly Valance would have replaced Kylie Minogue as Cammy White, and Damian Chapa would have reprised his role as Ken Masters. Byron Mann was also reportedly in talks to return as Ryu Hoshi. However, after a few years of trying to get the sequel off the ground, the project never materialized and any plans for a sequel were scrapped in favor of a reboot, Street Fighter: The Legend of Chun-Li, when the Street Fighter film rights reverted from Universal Pictures to 20th Century Fox.
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According to an on-line interview with MTV, Jean-Claude Van Damme was originally offered the role of Guile for Fox's Street Fighter: The Legend of Chun-Li. He would've been the only original cast member to reprise the role for the Street Fighter reboot, but Van Damme turned down their offer. After the theatrical release of "The Legend of Chun-Li", which was intended to be better and more successful than the Jean-Claude Van Damme "Street Fighter", "The Legend of Chun-Li" actually made less money at the box office than "Street Fighter" and was considered by many fans and critics as a worse film than the original 1994 "Street Fighter" movie.
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When M. Bison is in his podium at the end of the movie you can see that its controlled by arcade button and joysticks.
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Several of the characters in this movie also appear in Walker Texas Ranger.
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The gold statue in Sagat's business parlor (the lady lying on her side) is the same statue that can be seen in Sagat's backdrop in the video games.
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In the video games, E. Honda is Japanese, but in this film he is depicted as being Somoan.
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Kenya Sawada is dubbed.
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In the video games, Ryu and Ken are the main characters, whereas in this film, Guile takes the lead role. This would be reused for Street Fighter: The Animated Series.
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In this film, several characters from the games were given full names. Guile's full name is William F. Guile, Sagat's first name is Viktor and Ryu and Chun-Li's last names are Hoshi and Zang respectively. None of these full names have been used in the video games canon, with the exception of Ken Masters and Cammy White.
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In 2010, this film was ranked #27 on Empire's "50 Worst Movies Ever".
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face the whole time. 
good points tho...long term money huh? i give you that..but imo i believe if he signed on to mk they would have gave johnny more shine just off his name alone
How the fukk did that happen
