Street Fighter II as emotional warfare? This 11-minute gut-punch plays for keeps.
Set in 1992, a Filipino kid working at his father’s liquor store seeks community through the arcade game Street Fighter II, but finds himself clashing with a local bully.
Direction
Sanchez squeezes a feature's worth of character into 11 minutes.
Acting
Derek Basco's father—tender, broken, never says enough.
Production
Period-perfect arcade detail; you can smell the sticky floors.
Director
Jole Sanchez
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Part of a wave of AAPI shorts re-examining 90s assimilation trauma through pop culture lenses.
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