In 1999, demonic rollerblading triplets armed with hockey sticks laid cross-checks on the likes of Bud Cort and Chris Rock in Kevin Smith’s Dogma. The enforcer in the blue Highlands Clamdiggers jersey? That was Kitao Sakurai, a teenage actor based in Cleveland at the time. He couldn’t have known it then, but his role in Smith’s slacker-minded religious satire offered an early glimpse of the offbeat sensibility he’d later bring to his own filmmaking — a sensibility now on full display in Street Fighter, the number-one movie in America.
‘Street Fighter’ Director Kitao Sakurai Built a Career by Embracing the Ridiculous – The Hollywood Reporter
In 1999, demonic rollerblading triplets armed with hockey sticks laid cross-checks on the likes of Bud Cort and Chris Rock…
