Overview

Know for
Acting
Gender
Male
Birthday
23 Jan, 1939 (86 years old)

Sonny Chiba

Biography

Sonny Chiba (born January 23, 1939 - August 19, 2021), also known as Shin'ichi Chiba, was a Japanese actor and martial artist. Chiba was one of the first actors to achieve stardom through his skills in martial arts, initially in Japan and later before an international audience. Born in Fukuoka, Chiba played a variety of sports in high school, including baseball and volleyball. He also practiced gymnastics and participated at the National Sports Festival of Japan in his third year. When he was a university student, he learned martial arts, earning a black belt in Kyokushin Karate in 1965 and later receiving a fourth degree in 1984. Chiba's career began in the 1960s, when he starred in two tokusatsu superhero shows. In his first role, he replaced Susumu Wajima as the main character Kōtarō Ran/Seven Color Mask in Seven Color Mask (Nana-iro Kamen) in the second half of the series. However, his breakthrough role was in the 1974 film The Street Fighter. Before retiring, Chiba had also appeared in a number of English language American films, including Kill Bill: Volume 1 (2003) and Fast & Furious 3: Tokyo Drift (2006). Chiba died of COVID-19 complications at the hospital in Tokyo on 19 August 2021, at the age of 82. Description above from the Wikipedia article Sonny Chiba, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.

Known For

Deadly Outlaw: Rekka
HD
96 min 2002

Deadly Outlaw: Rekka

Action
The Storm Riders
HD
128 min 1998

The Storm Riders

Fantasy
Shogun's Shadow
HD
114 min 1989

Shogun's Shadow

History
Legend of the Eight Samurai
HD
133 min 1983

Legend of the Eight Samurai

Fantasy
Samurai Reincarnation
HD
122 min 1981

Samurai Reincarnation

Action
Shogun's Ninja
HD
117 min 1980

Shogun's Ninja

Action

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