"Does Sawada have a lightsaber?"

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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/200807020740...movie.html
https://es.scribd.com/document/6733031/SFTMTG (transcribed version of the thread mentioned on the link above)