Fatal Fury: Legend of the Hungry Wolf
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| Fatal Fury: Legend of the Hungry Wolf | |
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| 餓狼伝説 (Fatal Fury) |
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| OVA | |
| Directed by | Masami Obari |
| Studio | AIC |
| No. of episodes | 1 |
| Released | 16 July 1994 |
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Fatal Fury: Legend of the Hungry Wolf is an anime movie based on the fighting game, Fatal Fury. The movie was character designed and directed by acclaimed director Masami Obari. The movie was distributed by Viz Media.
[edit] Story
The movie starts with a scene of a beautiful day at the harbor in Southtown U.S.A. 12-year-old Terry and Andy Bogard are out with their master, Tung Fu Rue and their father, Jeff Bogard. Jeff, who had been lagging behind, finds himself surrounded by a group of poor children who ask him for some spare change. Jeff tells the children he will give them some money if they will let go of him in a slightly down manner. As he says this however, a pretty young green haired flower girl asks Jeff if he will buy one of her flowers, to which Jeff replies of course he will.
As this is happening, a black car pulls up from which four men exit and surround Jeff. The four black suited men draw large concealed knives and attack Jeff. The children around Jeff cling to him as if to stop him from moving while the men attack. He defeats 3 of the men easily, even picking up and protecting the young flower girl. The fourth man however, buries his blade into Jeff's back from behind, but is then knocked away. Now wounded, Jeff struggles to stand in pain, while from the brightness behind him emerges a figure, who Jeff identifies as his old friend Geese Howard. Jeff dies of his wounds, and in front of his grave Tung Fu Rue makes his children promise that no matter what, in ten years they'll reunite as much stronger people to punish Geese.
Ten years later, Terry is the first one to return. His first act upon arriving in Southtown is a trip to the Pao Pao Café, an elegant bar owned by the crime lord and murderer Geese Howard. As Terry drinks downstairs, Geese is in the middle of bribing the police commissioner, who rhetorically asks Geese if he is planning to run the King of Fighters tournament and to try to not let the corruption get too blatant. Just then, Geese's right hand man, Billy Kane, informs him that, "some guy is asking about him downstairs." When Geese steps out onto the balcony Billy points out the man he was talking about, who is in fact Terry, as he grabs a waitress and is bashed upside the head for it.
Along the way, Terry meets up with two other characters. One of them is Lily McGuire, who was the Queen of South Town and is loved by the poor children who live in that town. She was taken in by Geese Howard, who used her to get involved with Jeff's murder. The other one is Joe Higashi, a Champion Thai kickboxer and a long friend and rival of Andy Bogard, who was in Southtown to enter the King of Fighters Tournament. Terry sees Lily talking to the children and giving them food and money, and recognizes her as the flower girl but doesn't hold it up against her. Later, he meets Joe and befriends him upon learning that he's a friend of hsi brother.
Then after, Terry meets up with Andy and Tung Fu Rue. Tung Fu Rue tells them of a technique called the Hurricane Punch but he will only teach the technique to one of them. So Terry decides that both him and Andy should enter the King of Fighters tournament and should one of them be the victor, Tung Fu Rue will teach them that technique.
When Geese Howard finds out about the brothers entering the tournament, he decides to set a trap for them. In the tournament, Raiden defeats Michael Max with a suplex. Joe defeats Duck King with his Tiger Kick and Hwa Jai, even with his super drink, could not defeat Andy's Shoryudan. Geese planned to use Lily to deliver poison champagne to Terry before he starts his fight, but she fails to do so because of her feelings towards Terry, who is the only one who has seen her true self and might redeem her of her former sins. With that, Terry defeats his opponent, Richard Meyer and manages to end in a final fight showdown with his brother, Andy.
As the fight starts, Joe notices a man who was going to assassinate the Bogard brothers and ends up taking the bullet for them. With the help of Lily, they manage to escape the Tournament and for that, it costs her her life at the hands of Geese Howard; he uses his most powerful technique, the Rising Storm, to knock her down a flight of stairs and fatally injures her in front of Joe and the Bogards. Her life was not the only one at stake, for Tung Fu Rue is attacked by Billy Kane and fights for his life.
At the hospital where Tung Fu Rue was hospitalized and in a coma, Andy, angered by Master Tung's injuries goes off to take revenge against Geese Howard, with Joe Higashi tagging along. Back at the hospital, Tung Fu Rue is able to escape his coma and teach Terry the secret technique, but after demonstrating it, Tung Fu Rue's life runs out.
Andy and Joe manages to get to Geese Howard's Manor while taking the guards and battling Billy Kane and Raiden. After the success of their battle, Andy confronts Geese Howard but is not strong enough to defeat him. Later Terry comes by, seeing Andy defeated, and attacks Geese Howard. He uses his new technique, Senpuken, but it barely has any effect on Geese Howard. He tries to absorb more energy and ends up with a new technique, The Hurricane Kick and defeats Geese Howard.
Later, Terry, Andy and Joe meet up at Jeff Bogard's grave, each of them going their separate ways.
