When we were doing Virtua Fighter, I went to a Chinese Kenpo temple to do research. There was a grand master there. The first thing we did was drink. It’s a white liquor, a local speciality. The Chinese custom is that you must drink 3 shots in a row for all the people that you meet. There were eight people there. Three times eight is 24. That’s quite a lot. You show that the cup is empty by turning it upside down. You don’t want to upset anyone, so you do that. The grand master was impressed, and said that all the Japanese he had met before just drank beer. You had been the only one who has drank such heavy liquor, he said! [laughs] After that, he taught me some Hakkyokuken techniques… [the art used by Akira Yuki in the game] though at this point, it was looking more like drunken fist! Since he’s a grand master, he’ll stop his fist before it hits you. But, since he was drunk, I wound up getting gut-punched. I went down head first, onto the hard stone floor.
— Yu Suzuki encore, durant une interview pour le site Kikizo.
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