Jason Momoa’s Blanka faces Andrew Koji’s Ryu in a new Street Fighter movie clip, giving the Street Fighter movie its sharpest look yet at one of its central matchups. IGN released the footage as the film moves toward its October 16, 2026 theatrical opening.
Momoa and Koji in frame
The clip puts Momoa and Koji in direct conflict, which is the cleanest way to sell a video-game adaptation that leans on familiar faces instead of a slow build. For Fans of Street Fighter, that matters because the matchup is not being described in the abstract; it is being shown, and the studio side of the rollout is betting that a short fight scene can do some of the heavy lifting before release.
Street Fighter also stars Noah Centineo as Ken Masters, Callina Liang as Chun-Li, Joe “Roman Reigns” Anoai as Akuma, David Dastmalchian as M. Bison, Cody Rhodes as Guile, Andrew Schulz as Dan Hibiki, Eric André as Don Sauvage, Vidyut Jammwal as Dhalsim, Orville Peck as Vega, Olivier Richters as Zangief, Hirooki Goto as E. Honda, Rayna Vallandingham as Juli, Alexander Volkanovski as Joe, and Curtis ‘50 Cent’ Jackson as Balrog. That scale tells you the film is being built as an ensemble, not a single-character vehicle, so this clip functions like a first sales pitch for a much larger roster.
1993 and the Deadly Conspiracy
The film is set in 1993 and is driven by a deadly conspiracy that forces Ryu and Ken Masters to face off against each other and the demons of their past, with Chun-Li recruiting them for the next World Warrior Tournament. The clip, though, only shows Blanka versus Ryu, so the movie is still withholding the wider plot mechanics and using the fight itself as the main hook.
Kitao Sakurai directs Street Fighter, and that gives the teaser value beyond character recognition: it is the first hard look at how the movie is staging combat, casting momentum, and assembling its tone around a franchise that lives or dies on the clarity of its matchups. Jason Momoa in Blanka makeup, opposite Andrew Koji’s Ryu, is the kind of early proof point this project needed.
October 16, 2026
Street Fighter opens in theaters on October 16, 2026, which leaves the rollout room to keep using clips and character reveals as marketing fuel. For now, the message is simple: the film is no longer just a title and a cast list; it has a visible Blanka-versus-Ryu identity, and that is the part worth watching next.
