TEKKEN: Blood Vengeance (2011) poster
2011 · action · animation · sci-fi · martial-arts

TEKKEN: Blood Vengeance

Directed by Youichi Mouri1h 40m2011
ElsewhereIMDb5.86k
  • kinetic
  • intense
  • surreal
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Neutral, breathless, measured action / animation, surreal in texture. Ambivalent, epic, measured, hand-scored across twelve axes of taste.

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Set in the rich Tekken universe, Tekken: Blood Vengeance 3D follows Xiaoyu Ling, seasoned martial artist and high school student, tasked by the G Corporation to infiltrate an international school in Kyoto to gather information on the mysterious student Shin Kamiya. Before she can make any progress in the investigation, Shin is kidnapped by an unknown assailant. Digging deeper into Shin’s background in an attempt to rescue him, Xiaoyu learns about the frightening underbelly of the Mishima Zaibatsu. Jin Kazama, Kazuya Mishima… and the late Heihachi Mishima’s conspiracy that’s stained with blood.

Our read · TEKKEN: Blood Vengeance (2011) reads as a neutral, breathless, surreal action · animation · sci-fi entry — measured in intensity, epic-stakes in scope, measured in temperature, ambivalent in outlook. Hand-scored on twelve axes of taste — mood, pacing, weirdness, hope, stakes, humour, reality, density, warmth, auteur, intensity, and era — with a derived palette drawn from its dominant cinematography.

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You want flashy 3D anime martial-arts action inside the Tekken game universe.

ends triumphantyou’ll be fine aftera rollercoastergrips by minute 5attention 3/5earns its lengthsubtitles: full
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Each axis is hand-scored — not derived from votes or genre averages. The marker shows where this film sits; the gradient fill uses the film's own cinematography palette.

Mood · HeavyCosy
Pacing · Slow-burnKinetic
Intensity · GentleExtreme
Weirdness · ConventionalSurreal
Hope · NihilisticRedemptive
Stakes · IntimateEpic
Humour · NoneBroad
Reality · GroundedFantastical
Density · SparseTwisty
Warmth · ColdTender
Auteur · TransparentSignature
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