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An anime based on the fighting game franchise ''Franchise/{{Tekken}}'', specifically the first two games. Originally released as a two-part OVA, the parts were edited together for the western release as a movie.

Multi-billionaire Heihachi Mishima is having a fighting tournament on the island which is [[IslandBase the base of his operations]]. This attracts many fighters, including Jun Kazama who has come to investigate Heihachi's suspected illegal activities and Heihachi's son Kazuya, who wants revenge for being left for dead in the past by him.

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!!This anime has examples of:

* AdaptationalBackstoryChange: Michelle in the games just wanted revenge on Heihachi for killing her father in the first game, and kidnapping her mother in the second. Here, he also burned her village to the ground.
* AdaptationalEarlyAppearance: While this is meant to portray the events of the first ''Tekken'', Jun Kazama and Lei Wulong, who debuted in ''Tekken 2'', play a significant role to the plot. Jun's early appearance here may factor why Kazuya [[AdaptationalHeroism isn't as evil as he is in the games]], as in the canon game, she only appeared ''after'' Kazuya established himself as a cruel villain.
* AdaptationalNiceGuy: Kazuya is much nicer ([[AntiHero in as much]]) and [[AdaptationalHeroism heroic]] in this motion picture.
** He is still determined to kill his father Heihachi for dropping him off a cliff when he was a kid. Jun manages to convince him to give up his desire for revenge, and after sparing Heihachi, he rescues the unconscious Jun before leaving the self-destructing island.
** The reason why he got thrown into the cliff by Heihachi turns out not out of rage of Heihachi murdering his mother (though that is established way later in the series), but because Heihachi saw him trying to comfort Jun over her dying pet and declares that this is why Kazuya was weak and deserve to be thrown to a cliff.
* AdaptationalVillainy: Lee, who acts as TheDragon, and later tries to be TheStarscream for his adoptive father Heihachi, and plots to use the army of invisible dinosaur clones to take over the world. He also triggers the island's self-destruct mechanism after Heihachi declares him out of the game, intent on leaving no winner alive.
** Also both Nina and Anna, who are employed as assassins by Lee to kill Kazuya. In this story, the tournament is a composite of both the first and second tournaments from the first two games (Heihachi is the tournament host as in the first game, but there are many competitors introduced in the second game, such as Jun, Lei and Bruce). In the first game Nina tried to assassinate Heihachi (who was then the tournament host) and Anna opposed her, but in the second game it was the opposite way, which means Anna was acting as a {{Bodyguard Babe|s}} employed by Kazuya, who was the host of the second tournament.
** Alex in the games was created as a prototype bioweapon by Bosconovitch on Kazuya's orders, but he had a goofy personality which kept him from being the vicious killer bioweapon Kazuya wanted, and in the end he became nothing but a dinosaur counterpart to Roger, a "boxing raptor". Here, Bosconovitch (at the behest of either Heihachi, Lee, or both) has cloned "Alex" into several dinosaur clones, and has given them the ability to be invisible (apparently a sort of chameleon-like active camouflage) and they all are big and nasty predators.
* AdaptedOut: Angel from ''Tekken 2''. Also, while many other characters from the second game do make cameos and minor appearances, Wang and Kunimitsu aren't seen anywhere.
* AmbiguousSituation: During their confrontation, Nina accuses Anna of killing their father because he favored Nina over her. Despite Anna's furious reaction, she doesn't outright deny it, leaving it vague as to whether she really did kill him.
* ArtisticLicenseBiology: Jun express shock at the existence of a multi-gene life form. In reality, virtually all life (including humans) has multiple genes. Though Jun's shock could be that that the Mishima Zaibatsu perfected an artificially-created multi-gene lifeform.
* AntiHero: Kazuya as expected. There are numerous times where he gives into the evil growing inside of him, such as attempting to kill Michelle or tearing apart an Alex clone in a bloody manner, however he's still ultimately the lesser of two evils between himself and Heihachi.
* BabiesEverAfter: [[spoiler:Jun and presumably Kazuya have a son (who fans will recognize as Jin) at the end]].
* BigBad: Heihachi, with Lee acting as TheDragon for him.
* BigOlEyebrows: Members of the Mishima family have some ridiculously huge eyebrows.
* BloodierAndGorier: Than the games, which tend not to have ''Franchise/MortalKombat''-style copious amounts of blood. This anime has it aplenty.
* CatapultNightmare: Jun wakes up from one after AMinorKidroduction.
* ConvectionSchmonvection: Lava flows that are setting the whole island on fire? Just a minor inconvenience to those of martial arts!
* DealWithTheDevil: How Kazuya survived his fall sixteen years ago.
* DeathByAdaptation:
** The storyline follows the first game, with some characters from the second. Nina and Anna's father Richard died shortly before the events of the second. He's already dead when the story starts.
** Michelle's mother is said to have been "left to die" in the wilderness after their village burned down. In the second game, Heihachi merely kidnapped her.
** [[spoiler:Anna gets eaten alive by one of the Alex clones, Lee commits suicide by setting off the tower's self-destruct while he's still inside, and Jack-2 performs a HeroicSacrifice by holding up a closing steel door so that Lei, Jane and Dr. Boskonovitch can escape the doomed island -- which crushes him afterward]].
* DemotedToExtra: Plenty of fighters from the second game, like Paul and King, have only stationary appearances in the background. Others, like Prototype Jack and Alex, actually appear as mass-produced enemy robots and dinosaur clones respectively.
* DependingOnTheWriter: Jun in this movie is decidedly less pleasant than ''Tekken 2'' might have you believe. ''Tag 2'', however, [[CharacterizationMarchesOn shows signs of her portrayal in this movie]] (although entwined with Jun's original depiction in ''[=T2=]'' and ''Tag'').
* DesignatedGirlFight: Nina and Anna, [[TheGloriousWarOfSisterlyRivalry unsurprisingly]]. Michelle however fights both Kazuya and Ganryu in the tournament.
* {{Determinator}}: Jun is set on saving Kazuya from being consumed by his desire for revenge and the darkness in his own heart. This is because she met him as a gentle and caring boy during their childhood, and she had the misfortune of witnessing him being dropped to his apparent death by his father Heihachi, and being a little girl at the time she was powerless and impotent to save Kazuya back then.
** Kazuya is initially just as determined to kill his father for revenge, but he relents after being convinced by Jun to spare Hei.
* DistantFinale: Ends "some time later" with [[spoiler: Jun and her son Jin.]]
* EatenAlive: [[spoiler: While she's monologing during her fight with Nina, one of the Alex clones sneaks up on Anna. By the time Anna notices, it's too late and Alex devours her right in front of Nina.]]
* EveryoneHasStandards: Nina may hate her sister but [[spoiler: she's horrified at her being eaten by an Alex clone]].
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* {{Fanservice}}: Anna is first seen having a shower, completely uncensored.
* GoryDiscretionShot: [[spoiler: Anna's death]] is this. We only hear the screaming.
* HeroicSacrifice: [[spoiler:Jack-2, who dies stopping a falling door to allow Lei, Doctor Bosconovitch and Jane to escape out of the self-destroying island. As soon as they get past the door, it crushes Jack]].
* InconsistentDub: Anna's name is pronounced "Ah-na" by most of the characters but as "An-ah" by Lee's employees.
* ManipulativeBastard: Lee seduces both Williams sisters and feigns affection for them in order to manipulate them into doing his dirty work. To Anna's credit, she does recognise that Lee is two-timing them but she believes that Lee prefers her over Nina. [[spoiler:Unfortunately for her, both sisters were equally expendable in Lee's eyes once he sics the Alex clones on the fighters, them included.]]
* AMinorKidroduction: The film opens with Kazuya and Jun as kids, just before Heihachi throws Kazuya down from a cliff.
* MotiveRant: As Jun presses Heihachi about his tumultuous relationship with his son and his ambitions and actions taken against the world at large through his conglomerate, Heihachi waxes about Mankind's [[ForGreatJustice need to justify and excuse its compulsion towards violence through ideals and platitudes,]] to the point that said excuses and higher ideals overtake necessary violence. [[labelnote:Well, lets have him explain it:]]
-->'''Jun''': I don't understand it. Why would someone as powerful as you throw your own son into the canyon? And why are you now flooding the world with weapons and planning its destruction? Why is the world your enemy and not your own hatred?
-->'''Heihachi''': Hm. Then tell me what you consider justice.
-->'''Jun''': Justice?
-->'''Heihachi''': Rationale is a better word. Is the truth your rationale for living life like you do?
-->'''Jun''': What do you mean?
-->'''Heihachi''': Just this! Words like "justice" and "truth" are empty concepts that have led societies through cancerous histories. Through the ages, those who have blindly believed in these absolute truths have fought and died over empty platitudes. Today, you'll find people mistaking their own greed for truth, and eating the planet out from under them and condemning themselves to total annihilation, chanting their democracy and their freedom as though they were a religion. They're cheerfully justifying their journey towards self-destruction.
-->'''Jun''': But how does any of that justify the way you've lived your life?
-->'''Heihachi''': Don't you get it? The only way to truly salvage this disgusting world is to DESTROY everything on it so a new world can be rebuilt!
-->'''Jun''': You monster! You threw your son into the canyon specifically to place that dark hatred in his heart! You've groomed the perfect successor for your plans of carnage and genocide!
-->'''Heihachi''': My Tekken will create the destruction of the Devil and the renewal of the Gods!
-->'''Jun''': No one has that kind of right! What would you have done if he'd been killed?
-->'''Heihachi''': My son is too strong. And if he had been defeated, I was prepared to give my own life.
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* NoodleIncident: The Interpol boss offhandedly mentions an "unexpected alien invasion" the month before while filling Jun in on her mission.
* NowThatsUsingYourTeeth: Michelle tries to kill Heihachi by throwing an axe at him. He catches it with his teeth and bites it apart.
* OffscreenMomentOfAwesome: [[spoiler:Nina, along with the other fighters (Paul, Law, King, Armor King, and Yoshimitsu), managing to survive the Alex clones just as they appeared to be saved by Lei and Bosconovich. It's clear the fighters had to eliminate the dinosaurs set to kill them earlier (with Law, King, Armor King, and Nina limping to show for it). Only Paul came out unscathed, having managed to save Michelle too]].
* PetTheDog: Played straight at first when after listening to why she wants Heihachi dead and pummeling her, Kazuya promises Michelle that he will kill Heihachi for her sake too. This is subverted as he attempted to kill her until Jun interfered.
* PromotedToLoveInterest: Anna and Lee have a relationship in this.
* TheProtagonist: Jun. She is the central character in this version of the story.
* SelfDestructMechanism: When Lee realizes that he will never inherit Mishima Conglomerate, he starts up one.
* ShowerScene: Provided by Anna Williams.
* SparedByTheAdaptation: Kazuya survives the tournament (which is basically a composite of both the first and second tournament from the games — in the second game's tournament he is knocked out and dropped into a volcano by Heihachi, resulting in his death up until his resurrection in ''Tekken 4''), rescuing the unconscious Jun and carrying her out of the collapsing island, [[spoiler:but does not stay with her after she gives birth to their son Jin]].
* SpeedStripes: Used on many fight scenes.
* TitleTheAdaptation: Even used by the alternate title ''Tekken: The Animation''.
* UseYourHead: Kazuya and Heihachi butt their heads together during the climactic fight.
* VillainousBreakdown: Lee, when he realizes Heihachi will not let him inherit the Zaibatsu and literally knocks him off the tournament. [[spoiler:He sets off the island's self destruction sequence, intent on killing all competitors, but he doesn't try to escape and dies regretting it all when his base in the pagoda explodes]].
* VisibleInvisibility: Used to show the experimental dinosaur bio-weapons.
* WhatHappenedToTheMouse: We never saw Baek Doo San and Ganryu after they were respectively defeated by Kazuya and Michelle, especially if they were [[spoiler:attacked by Alexes or not]].
* WouldHitAGirl: Kazuya to Nina (twice), Michelle and Jun.
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