Introduced in Tekken 5, she is a relative of Jun Kazama, and by extension Jin Kazama as well. But, one could argue, the genre never really went away through the decades ( The Last Dragon, Blade, Romeo Must Die, The Man With The Iron Fists).Īsuka Kazama is technically the veteran fighter, in spite of being a considerably younger character. Blaxploitation as a genre had its roots in the 1970s with Jim Kelly as Black Belt Jones. Leroy Smith’s design was quite clever for Harada, as it tapped a long underserved fandom for blaxploitation in the video game sphere. This was his way of adding Wing Chun into the Tekken franchise. As he explained, the ‘Grandfather of Drip’ was entirely his idea. However, in 2019, he surprised fans by adding Leroy Smith as a DLC character for Tekken 7. I’ll let you read the reason Harada didn’t want to add Wing Chun here. Marshall and Forrest Law’s situation was different, because as Harada saw it, they used Bruce Lee’s original martial art, Jeet Kune Do.

He learns that the messy situation in New York when he grew up was the responsibility of the Mishima Zaibatsu, specifically Heihachi Mishima, so like many a Tekken fighter, he seeks revenge from the Mishima family.įor over a decade ago, Tekken lead Katsuhiro Harada stated that he didn’t want to add Ip Man or Ip Man’s martial art, Wing Chun, into Tekken. When he returns, he’s already an older man, and a Wing Chun master.

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