Sonny Chiba
Personal Info
Known For Actor
Gender Male
Birthday 1939-01-23
Deathday 2021-08-19 (82 years old)
Place of Birth Fukuoka, Fukuoka Prefecture, Japan
Also Known As Синъити Тиба, Shinichi Chiba, Sadaho Maeda
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
Actor
as Calligrapher
as Ezra Sennett
as Musashi
as Seizo Gonda
as Seizo Gonda
as Self
as Sushi Chef
as Space Sheriff Voicer
as Hattori Hanzo
as Himself
as Ryudo Numata
as Uncle Kamata
as (archive footage)
as Hattori Hanzo I
as Hattori Hanzo I
as Shuro
as Azama
as Hattori Hanzo I
as Hattori Hanzo
as Otosan
as Hattori Hanzo
as Hattori Hanzo I
as Makio Mimura
as Hattori Hanzo I
as Hattori Hanzo I
as Yasunori Hijikata
as Xiong Ba / "Lord Conqueror"
as Ittetsu Kotani
as Ichiro Kusakari
as Dagger
as Self (archive footage)
as Lord Conqueror
as Makato
as Jiro 'J.J.' Jintani
as Chiba
as Horikoshi
as Supt. Yamada
as Matsudaira Tadateru
as Mitsutsugu Akechi
as Takeda Nobutora
as Umei Tamon
as Makoto Ushiyama
as Iba Shoemon
as Bunshichi
as Yakuza boss
as Ryozo Kano
as Self
as Shaider (Voice)
as Sonny Sullivan
as Shaider (Voice)
as Maejima Daigaku
as Inuyama Dosetsu Tadatomo
as Iga no Saizo
as Voicer (in flashback)
as Shinzaemon Yagyu
as Yagyu Jubei
as Space Sheriff Voicer
as Daisuke Kamikaze
as Mr. Magic
as Prince Ido
as Jubei Yagyu
as Shiranui Shogen
as Dr. Yamauchi
as Katsutoshi Otomo
as Yagyu Jubei
as Hattori Hanzō
as Lt. Yoshiaki Iba
as Mitsuhiko Sakurai
as Samon Shimoguni
as Fuwa Kazuemon
as Prince Hans (as Sonny Chiba)
as Jûbê Yagyû
as Yagyu Yubei
as Drunkard
as Duke Togo (Golgo 13)
as Joji Kano
as Sensei Masutatsu Oyama
as Kanai Hachiro
as Mu Yun Tek
as Tsuneyoshi Sakota
as Seigou Kunigami
as Wataru Kangi
as Shuuhei Sakata
as Doshin So
as Kazuma Higaki
as Mas Oyama
as Sensei Masutatsu Oyama
as Aoki
as Akira Inugami
as Kenichi Hyuga
as Ryuichi Koga
as Takuma Tsurguri
as Seiichi Hibiki
as Ryuichi Koga
as Takuma Tsurugi
as Takuma Tsurugi
as Tatsuya Wada
as Keitaro Shinjo
as Katsutoshi Otomo
as Keitarō Shinjō
as Haruo Kikuchi
as Toru Ibuki
as Shiro Hayata
as Shiro Hayata
as Captain Mishima
as Hayata Shiro
as Sho Onuma
as Mitsuo Fujiki
as Kazuo Yamamoto
as Komakichi Sugimoto
as Second Sublieutenant Hanzawa
as Dr. Yamatone
as Bungo Endo
as Ken Abe
as Mitarai Ken
as Toru Sasayama
as Lawyer Ohki
as Shinichi Matsuhashi
as Takao
as Shinkichi Hayami
as Nagashima
as Detective Nakagawa
as Goro Saionji
as Detective Nakagawa
as Tachibana - Scientist / Space Chief
as Goro Narumi
as Kotaro Ran
Director
as Director
as Director
as Director
as Action Director
as Action Director
Producer
as Producer
as Producer
Crew
as Fight Choreographer
Writer
as Writer