STREET FIGHTER 坂口拓 Tak Sakaguchi fansite and fanlisting

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Kitamura talks about Tak

I heard you met your lead actor Tak Sakaguchi while he was fighting in the street.
Yeah, that's true. He's a street fighter. He fought with a bear once, and won. Otherwise he would be dead now, of course (laughs). He fought a crocodile, he even fought a bull (laughs). He's a real fighter. He's just like he is in Versus, he's a crazy guy, but I love him. He's now the action director for Godzilla, which should bring some new blood to that series.
I met him on the street while he was beating somebody up and told him to call me. I told him he should be fighting in films instead of on the street. I told him to come to this party I was going to, some kind of independent film party. And when he arrived there, I was the one who was fighting (laughs). With some stupid German guy who was in a friend's film. I was beating his head into a table just when Taku came in (laughs). So the first time I met him, he was fighting, and the second time we met, I was fighting. Hideo Sakaki, who plays the bad guy in Versus, was also at that party, but he was talking to some pretty girl trying to get her phone number. He didn't care about the fighting. That's how the three of us met.
The character Taku plays in Versus, the prisoner, he's a combination of my character and Taku's character. He knows how I get angry and I know how he gets angry. For example, I know he hates it when somebody treats women badly.
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(From Midnight Eye)

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