{"id":62539,"date":"2025-07-13T15:22:10","date_gmt":"2025-07-13T15:22:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/62539\/"},"modified":"2025-07-13T15:22:10","modified_gmt":"2025-07-13T15:22:10","slug":"street-fighter-movie-casts-japanese-professional-wrestler-hirooki-goto-as-e-honda","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/62539\/","title":{"rendered":"Street Fighter movie casts Japanese professional wrestler Hirooki Goto as E. Honda"},"content":{"rendered":"


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The upcoming Street Fighter movie from Legendary Entertainment continues to fill out its cast for the upcoming film, which currently doesn’t have a release date<\/a>.
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Japanese professional wrestler, Hirooki Goto, is set to portray sumo wrestling great E. Honda, in the upcoming film according to Sean Ross Sapp of Fightful.com<\/a>.<\/p>\n


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Goto is signed to New Japan Pro Wrestling (NJPW), and was once an IWGP World Heavyweight Champion. He’ll join a number of other professional wrestlers and athletes, along with a few actors, to round out the cast for the upcoming release.<\/p>\n


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Hirooki Goto is slated to play E Honda in the Street Fighter movie, @FightfulSelect<\/a> has learned pic.twitter.com\/9nb0QvZoWO<\/a><\/p>\n

\u2014 Sean Ross Sapp of Fightful.com (@SeanRossSapp) July 10, 2025<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n


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David Dastmalchian is set to play M. Bison<\/a>, while Cody Rhodes from the WWE<\/a> is currently rumored to be playing Guile.<\/p>\n


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Jason Momoa and Roman Reigns are also said to be on board with the fighting game adaptation<\/a> as Blanka and Akuma respectively.<\/p>\n


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We recently learned as well that rapper 50 Cent will be joining in on the fun as Balrog<\/a> while Callina Liang is set to be the new Chun-Li<\/a>.<\/p>\n


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The first casting reports featured Andrew Koji as Ryu and Noah Centineo playing Ken Masters too<\/a>.<\/p>\n


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Andrew Schulz is on board to be Dan Hibiki also while Orville Peck will be another Shadaloo general in Vega.<\/p>\n


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The project is now being directed by Kitao Sakurai<\/a>, and it’ll probably be a good amount of time before we see a trailer or anything besides casting for the movie.<\/p>\n


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