Street Fighter director Kitao Sakurai remembers his Dogma troublemaker days

Nerdist's interview detour reveals a hockey-stick-wielding role in Kevin Smith's comedy, complete with a startled reaction from beside him.

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Why this story? The video opened at a pace of 103,489 views a day, 19 times a normal first day on this channel (5,361).

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"I beat up Bud Cort," Kitao Sakurai says, recalling an acting job rather than anything on the Street Fighter set. Before directing, he appeared in Kevin Smith's Dogma as one of the Stygian triplets, the hockey-stick-carrying troublemakers in the 1999 comedy.

Nerdist's Short supplies the evidence: a brief movie excerpt follows Sakurai's revelation, showing his younger self with the stick. Beside him, another interview participant tries to reconcile this discovery with his own movie fandom. "How do I not know that about you?" he asks, before explaining that Harold and Maude, which stars Cort, is among his favorite films.

The clip drew about 69,000 views in twelve hours, already well beyond Nerdist's usual full-day audience for a Short. In the comments, viewers are picking up on the Stygian triplets reference, remembering their own viewings of Dogma and, in one case, mentioning a DVD still on the shelf.

Nerdist's surrounding Street Fighter interviews have included Cody Rhodes discussing X-Men and David Dastmalchian fielding an M. Bison question. This time, the unexpected piece of movie lore comes from the director's own résumé.

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The numbers

Sakurai's Dogma recollection has already drawn far more views than a typical Nerdist Short gets in its first full day.

the video's first day

usual first day here

5,361

this video

103,489

subscribers

2,730,000

no significant change in the last 7 days

total views

765,659,400

views per day

106,531

typical day: 84,359

the video

views

69,461

likes

1,389

comments

15

days online

1

subscribers: this channel and similar channels

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2,090,000

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2,010,000

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As of October 19, 2026 · Data source: Trari Social News, Trari Traffic Trends and Ranking Platform, Google YouTube

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