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"Does Sawada have a lightsaber?" - ZpaceJ0ck0 - 03-31-2018
According to Alan Noon (one of the game designers and artists for Street Fighter: The Movie for the arcades, as well as the live action performer of the game's Bison Troopers), Sawada is unarmed in the game. The Lightsaber/katana/whatever you want to call it is actually a ki attack like the hadouken. However, given a conflict between the two Capcom branches, transparency was not applied and the attack was left solid.
https://web.archive.org/web/20080702074049/http://alan-noon.blogspot.com/2007/08/follow-up-street-fighter-movie.html
https://es.scribd.com/document/6733031/SFTMTG (transcribed version of the thread mentioned on the link above)