Genre: Action/Fantasy
Director: Anna Foerster
Writer: Billy Cruder
Based on the Tekken video game series
Cast: Peyton List, Emma Dumont, Luca Marinelli, Xander Berkeley, Minami Hamabe, Jessie Mei Li, Devyn Nekoda, Jason Scott Lee, Emily Beecham, Tzi Ma, Giulio Berruti, Veronika Vernadskaya, Hirona Yamazaki, Kim-Yong Ji
Plot: 1821, Japan. The camera moves through the dark alleys of a city until it stops by a couple of people who appear to be flirting, a black-haired woman (Emma Dumont) in a red gothic dress and a middle-aged man. At one point the man begins to complain and try to push the woman away with her hands until he falls to the ground, probably lifeless. The camera focuses on the woman, her mouth is stained with blood and shows her rather pronounced canine teeth and as she smiles she takes a deep breath. At this point she hears voices approaching, Eliza's face becomes more worried and she silently walks towards her home, the basement of a huge ruined castle just outside the city. It is understood that the girl is not originally from those areas but she had to escape from her hometown because someone was chasing her. The girl, named Eliza, enters the castle but she looks around worried realizing that something is wrong but before she realizes what it is she is attacked by a group of men. They were a clan of Italian exorcists who had been hunting her for a long time, called the Archers of Sirius, pleased to have finally found her. Their leader, Luca Serafino (Giulio Berruti tells her that although they know of Eliza's immortality they have a ritual ready that will defeat her and orders the other members to take her. Eliza shakes her head and gets into an attack position. At this point they begin to fight, showing great fighting prowess on Eliza's part. Eliza looks around her after quickly defeating the first wave of enemies that are on the ground around her. Luca applauds the vampire and compliments her by giving orders to all the other members of the clan to block her. This time there were too many opponents and she was overwhelmed. The woman, held back by some members of the clan, is on her knees in front of Luca Serafino and she looks at him with contempt and with a look full of anger. The man begins to recite magic spells as the girl yells at him that she is immortal and she will never die and he replies that it is true, but that her ritual will make her sleep for eternity. Shortly after the girl goes into a kind of trance and she doesn't move anymore. At this point she is picked up from the ground, placed in a box with chains and taken to the deepest place of the castle.
Now:
A young blonde girl (Peyton List) is tied up and gagged in a dark place. At a certain point the door opens, her three kidnappers enter the room talking to each other about the ransom to be asked of her rich father, the very wealthy oil tycoon, Mr. Rochefort. Their boss approaches the girl who is sobbing and trying to say something through the gag and pulls it down. The girl thanks him in a frightened voice but a moment later she laughs, completely changing her expression, looking defiantly at her kidnappers. She with her slightly French accent tells her that she had a lot of fun but that she is now tired and that she has to go home to drink hot tea at 4pm. A moment later, with a sudden forward movement of her, she headbutts the face of the man in front of her and then quickly frees herself from the ropes she had managed to untie earlier. She then KOs the three men in seconds. She then approaches one of the three of her, who had apostrophized her as being just a girl, and kicks him in the face saying that she is not just a girl, but that she is named Emilie "Lili" de Rochefort. She then she walks away arranging her hair with a satisfied face.
The girl wakes up looking around realizing that she is in her room and that it was a dream even if it concerned real events that took place a year ago. Someone is knocking on her door, it was butler Sebastian (Xander Berkeley) who was bringing her a cup of hot tea. The girl thanks and tells him that she would soon go out with her friend Mitsuki Noda (Devyn Nekoda). Sebastian is pleased to see that although the Rochefort family had recently moved to Japan, Lili had already found a friend and Lili says that Mitsuki is kind and polite and her name in Japanese means "beautiful moon". Lili is preparing to leave and hears shots coming from the floor below her. The house is very old, in the past it was an old castle, now restored, so the girl does not give much weight to it because we often hear strange noises coming from the house.
Lili and Mitsuki go to the mall and after doing some shopping they sit on a bench to eat on a bench and start talking about the school, which will start again in a few days after the summer holidays. Lili is excited and curious as Japanese school is new to her, having recently moved there. Lili is enrolled in the Mishima Polytechnical School, the international school founded by the tycoon Heihachi Mishima due to the important working relationship between Heihachi and Lili's father.
Shortly after seeing a girl running on the back of a panda she comically screaming at everyone to be late and to move. Mitsuki tells Lili that she knows her because she also goes to Mishima school. As she is about to reveal her name, Lili anticipates her by admiringly saying that she is Ling Xiaoyu (Jessie Mei Li), the youngest fighter to ever participate in the King of Iron Fist Tournament. At this point there is a flashback. Hong Kong. Xiaoyu is training in the temple run by her grandfather Wang Jinrei (Tzi Ma). Wang Jinrei believed that if her nephew had been more serious he could have achieved true greatness in the fight but he was also frustrated by the girl's often impulsive behavior. At the end of the training she decides to take a tour of the city where she notices a giant yacht docked in the dock. Her eyes light up with a smile. Xiaoyu infiltrated in the Yacht, called Empire Mishima, defeating and immobilizing all the guards. At that point she makes the acquaintance of Heihachi Mishima. She gets on her knees in front of him asking her to build a Tekken theme park in China. Heihachi laughs at her futile request but then says he would build it if she won the next tournament. Before letting her go he tells her about her given her fighting qualities he would have enrolled her at Mishima Polytecnical School and if she had made herself worthy of her he would have trained her himself. The flashback ends with Lili saying she says she hopes to fight her someday.
Meanwhile, Mitsuki notices another familiar face telling this to Lili, her classmate Asuka Kazama (Minami Hamabe). She says that she is related to the Mishima and Kazama families and that she does not have an easy temper. Asuka notices that they are talking about her and approaches her with a combative look. Asuka scolds Mitsuki saying never to mention her until she intervenes Lili jumping to her feet to defend her friend from her reproach. Asuka and Lili start arguing and pushing each other until they start fighting in the mall creating a lot of confusion by breaking things and despite the challenge seems to end in a draw, both are convinced that they have won. Many people have filmed everything with their cell phones. Lili comes home, by now late in the evening. Sebastian is sleeping and the girl with conspicuous bruises and scratches until she receives the call from her father while she is medicating. The girl replies and is severely reprimanded because he saw the video of her fighting with Asuka and the video has gone viral on the web. Meanwhile the scene briefly shifts to a gym where a girl named Shuwawei (Kim-Yong Ji) is training hard in Taekwondo. The girl stops for a moment to drink from a bottle and sees the notification of that video. After the phone call Lili snorts and hears again those shots coming from the basement followed this time by a female scream. Lili decides to go downstairs and finds an open chest with broken rust chains scattered across the floor.
Suddenly a breath on her neck made her jump. A moment later someone tries to bite her but the blonde girl manages to avoid the enemy's attack. Lili faces a black-haired girl dressed in a red gothic dress. Lili tries to ask the girl questions, which she doesn't answer. The two girls begin to fight hard. At one point Lili is blocked without her being able to free herself and she is bitten on her neck while her opponent whispers to her that she is Eliza. A few seconds later, however, Eliza throws Lili at the wall and makes a terrifying scream and she falls to her knees talking to herself repeating that she has lost her powers. In fact, Eliza realized that she had lost part of her vampire powers due to the spell suffered by Luca Serafino centuries before her. Lili gets up dazed, holding her side from her last blow and slowly approaches. Initially Eliza sends Lili away but then given Lili's insistence she tells her that she had woken up inside the box a few days before and that she had tried in vain to get out of the box until that night she was able to get out. At that point Eliza tells her story with melancholy and sadness about her and the events that had led her to be locked up. At the end of the story Lili stands up holding Eliza's hand saying that from now on they will be sisters and that she would help her regain her powers and she already has an idea of how to do it. Eliza however withdraws her hand from Lili's grasp. At that moment the frightened Sebastien who arrives there to check because he has heard noises. Lili looks at him and tells him that she needs the private plane to go on a trip to Italy with her new friend.
During the trip Lili says she has already heard from the Archers of Sirius about some of her school studies. You say that in the past they were a secret society but over the years they have opened up to the world and find themselves in Sicily, near Palermo. Once disembarked in Sicily, the two girls take a bus and head towards the Cathedral of Sirio. Along the way, the two girls confront each other as to whether Eliza really wanted to become a vampire again. Eliza says that being almost a human has her advantages as hers but she says she is convinced to regain her powers because she says she feels different and she can no longer recognize herself.
The two girls arrive near the Duomo at sunset. A large helicopter is parked in the parking lot. The girls sneak up looking inside from a window opening it slightly to better understand the situation. Lili sees with great surprise the head of the Archers of Sirius, Claudio Serafino (Luca Marinelli) arguing animatedly with Heihachi Mishima, partner of her father and founder of the school that she will begin to attend shortly. The scene moves inside the Duomo. Heihachi is trying to convince Claudio to ally with him but the Italian continues to refuse despite pressure from the wealthy tycoon. Suddenly Heihachi tells Claudio if he has noticed that there is someone who is spying on them. The two girls bend down hoping not to have been discovered. Heihachi, however, was not referring to Lili and Eliza because, from an upper balcony, Anna Williams (Emily Beecham) reveals her presence by jumping down next to the two men after being discovered. Anna had been sent by Heihachi's son Kazuya to find out the reason for Heihachi's sudden trip to Italy. Anna and Heihachi begin to fight until Anna manages to escape thanks to a smoke bomb. Shortly after, Heihachi goes away telling Claudio to call him if he has changed his mind.
At that point Eliza runs inside to face Claudio even though Lili didn't agree. Lili enters through the back entrance and as she walks she finds herself in a kind of crypt. Claudio asks Eliza who she was in a rather arrogant way and the girl says her name is Eliza. Claudio begins to remember the writings of his ancestors who told of a dangerous vampire with that name and how she was imprisoned even though she now looks as dangerous as he imagined her.
Eliza and Claudio start to fight while Lili searches the archive for some old manual or book that can help her friend and seems to find one. Claudio uses her moves to try to overwhelm Eliza and he almost seems to be able to hit her repeatedly. Eliza is on the ground a few meters from Claudio and struggles to get up. Lili feels that her friend is in trouble and quickly takes the manual and runs to the room where Eliza and Claudio are fighting Claudio begins to prepare for her final magical attack which serves to completely purify the souls of the enemies by trapping them in an endless limbo. A bow appears from Claudio's hands and quickly shoots an arrow towards Eliza. At that moment Lili arrives opening the book and reciting some random magic formula in the book. Suddenly a red glow covers the body of Eliza destroying the arrow and causing a big explosion that hits Claudio that ends up on the columns. The explosion also hits Lili, who has managed to protect herself in some way. At that point the blonde girl looks up and sees Eliza surrounded by a red aura, a mark similar to a black tattoo has appeared on her neck and her eyes have turned yellow with a pupil similar to that of the cats. The thing that made Lili shiver the most are the horns that grew on the vampire's head. It seems that the magical formulas read by Lili have made Eliza return to a vampire and her own, as well as awaken the power and the dormant abilities that not even she knew she had. Eliza appears to be in a trance and hardly recognizes her friend's her and it seems that her goal is just to satiate with fresh blood. Eliza kneels Lili on the stomach and then takes her by the scarf she has on her neck bringing her to her open mouth. The camera shows the canine teeth being stretched. Lili tries to make the vampire think and manages to get rid of the scarf and free herself by running away in the dark corridors of the basement. Suddenly Lili stops to think about what to do while she hears Eliza's voice calling her, giggling and humming a creepy little song about her being very hungry.
Just before Lili is found she manages to hide in the archive room and lock herself in by also placing a locker in front of the door and desperately searches for something that can help her. Meanwhile, Eliza is trying to open the door and repeating that she would be in soon. In fact, thanks to her immense strength, Eliza is almost managing to enter. Claudio arrives in the room through a secret passage in the wall, his right arm is totally out of order. He convinces Lili to trust him by telling her that the power unleashed by Eliza is out of control and no ritual or magic formula can kill her. He then instructs her on what to do while Eliza manages to open the door and throw the locker at the wall. Serafino reassures Lili that Eliza will not get hurt in this ritual and tells her to give him her right hand as his arm is out of order and he begins to summon his magical power from his depths. At that point Lili and Serafino are covered with a golden light that dazzles Eliza who was about to attack them, which she is forced to protect herself from the powerful light. A new bow appears in the hands of Serafino who, helped by Lili, shoots the arrow that hits Eliza in the chest. The vampire falls to the ground, apparently dead. Lili runs up to her but realizes she's just passed out. She notices that she still has protruding canine teeth and the mysterious mark on her neck is still present. Eliza opens her eyes and smiles at Lili and they hug. Serafino approaches her saying that Eliza's powers were too powerful and that no magic could definitively defeat her. He then adds that Eliza is now almost totally a vampire but that she will be able to control her powers. At that point Lili helps Eliza to get up. Lili tells her friend that it is now time to go home because the next day she starts school. The vampire says that she will rest in the basement of the Rochefort residence.
It is school start day. Asuka is late for school and runs full speed on her bike. When she is about to arrive at school suddenly a white limousine pulls up in front of her and as Asuka loses control, crashes to the ground and falls, her lunch falls next to her. On the verge of asking the driver about it, Lili gets out of the car and sarcastically states that her first day of school is ruined. At that point the two put themselves in an attack position to fight while Mitsuki comes running to try to calm the situation. The camera moves to Xiaoyu who arrives on the back of her pet, a perfectly trained Panda who stays out in the garden under a tree until her mistress enters. Along with her there is also her best friend, Miharu Hirano (Hirona Yamazaki) In the hallway she meets a sweet pink-haired Russian girl named Alisa (Veronika Vernadskaya) and they make friends right away. Shuwawei is also walking in the same corridor as she passes by and marks the other three students worthy of a look. The last scene moves to the basement of the Rochefort family residence where Eliza is sitting on the corner and holding a goblet with red liquid inside.
MID-CREDITS:
Xiaoyu is continuing to live her life, study, and train under the tutelage of Heihachi's Mishima Zaibatsu, but always cheerful and full of life Xiaoyu soon considers this life boring and mundane, with no particular goals. The girl comes home bored and lies down on the sofa snorting while Panda gets down on the floor. The girl turns on the PC to watch her favorite TV series of hers until an anonymous e-mail that warns her of Heihachi's bad intentions along with some files that talk about illegal business by Heihachi. Xiaoyu replies to the e-mail in hopes of a reply, but the address appears as non-existent. Xiaoyu with a determined face decides to investigate. The camera shows that Alisa is checking Xiaoyu's room revealing that her cyborg nature of her and she is talking to her mysterious boss about her saying that she has completed the mission.
POST-CREDITS:
Heihachi Mishima is in his office coordinating a mysterious operation on a Pacific Ocean island where there are laboratories and a military facility. Many Mishima Zaibatsu men are on the island carrying a crate made of a special material on a plane. Inside the chest there appears to be a human being who is in great pain. Then Heihachi orders his men to activate the protection system for the entire facility. At that point we hear the noise of some mechanisms being activated. Finally, the camera moves to a part of the structure where there are an unspecified number of androids with the appearance of Alisa Bosconovitch. Suddenly their eyes light up.
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