Sonny Chiba Lives!

[rogue]

Street Fighter clips.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bPjnSMVkXLA&mode=related&search=

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y7QJEDwa7iw&NR

[Oso]

rock on!

what style of "_______" was he supposed to be anyway?

I always like the 'internal' shots of him breaking bones and ripping hearts out and ****.

[rogue]

rock on!

what style of "_______" was he supposed to be anyway?

I always like the 'internal' shots of him breaking bones and ripping hearts out and ****.

It's "Street fighting" style.

[Oso]

ok, well, i thought there was some tie in with a real karate style.

[rogue]

Found this on Wiki.


In addition to his acting ability, Chiba also has blackbelts in the following martial arts:

* Ninjutsu—Fourth Dan
* Karate Goju—Second Dan
* Judo—Second Dan
* Kendo—First Dan
* Shorinji Kempo—First Dan
* Kyokushin—First Dan
* Japan Action Club (JAC)—Founder
o This organization aims to develop and raise the level of martial arts techniques and sequences used in Japanese film and television.

[Oso]

* Ninjutsu—Fourth Dan

aww, ******...

[rogue]

Oh yeah, Sonny is a ninja. The man's coolness has no limits.

Looks like his initial karate training was under Mas Oyama. Not a bad start.

[Oso]

yea, Oyama would be a good start.

but, why, oh why, did he have to sully it with neenja training???????????????????

[rogue]

Because, being a ninja is the shiznitz.

[PangQuan]

rock on!

what style of "_______" was he supposed to be anyway?

I always like the 'internal' shots of him breaking bones and ripping hearts out and ****.

i think in the movies it was actually suppose to be a cross between japanese karate and chinese kung fu. if i have my chiba series right anyway.

he is a half breed by story line. I think thats the street fighters story, havent watched any of em in a while though.

sonny chiba is fresh.

i would have loved to watch him fight bruce lee in real life.....i would put my dollar on chiba

[lunghushan]

yea, Oyama would be a good start.

but, why, oh why, did he have to sully it with neenja training???????????????????

Because karate is actually Okinawan, from China, and not even Japanese. What they call 'ninjitsu' actually comes from ryus of jujitsu and taijitsu. There's only a few that are actually what most people think of as 'ninjitsu' (concealment, certain weapons and all that).

Oh, and the Ninjitsu dark costumes are B.S. that was designed out of the Kabuki cinema. They had people who wore dark costumes to move the props around between acts, and when they started portraying 'Ninja' on the screen, they used those costumes. It's total B.S.

[PangQuan]

ninja would wear dark clothing. sometimes red. or get thier clothing wet before a known battle if possible.

to hide blood from any wounds they may have.

they sometimes also carried small boxes with holes in them that housed crickets. for sneaking around outside at night.

the sashes they would wear would often be of an extreme length near 10 feet or more, to be able to create a small hammick of sorts in trees for extended recon...or to tie yourself to a tree for dozing off.

[lunghushan]

ninja would wear dark clothing. sometimes red. or get thier clothing wet before a known battle if possible.

to hide blood from any wounds they may have.

they sometimes also carried small boxes with holes in them that housed crickets. for sneaking around outside at night.

the sashes they would wear would often be of an extreme length near 10 feet or more, to be able to create a small hammick of sorts in trees for extended recon...or to tie yourself to a tree for dozing off.

Supposedly they usually wore common villagers clothes to not be noticed, and when on 'missions' in the palace or whatever they would wear clothes of the enemy, once again, to blend in and not be noticed.

But who knows. There's supposed to be a Chinese counterpart to the Japanese 'ninja', but I can't seem to find much info about it anywhere.

[Golden Arms]

Ah nevermind, I wont even worry about it.

[The Xia]

what style of "_______" was he supposed to be anyway?

i think in the movies it was actually suppose to be a cross between japanese karate and chinese kung fu. if i have my chiba series right anyway.
The style I usually see listed is Kyokushin but you can find Goju Ryu Kata and techniques in there, which makes sense because Kyokushin draws upon Goju Ryu. If the wikipedia Sonny Chiba article is true (it says he is a first Dan in Kyokushin and a second Dan in Goju Ryu). http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sonny_Chiba

[PangQuan]

ya, chiba is pretty learned in the ol' arts...

the story line behind street fighter is actually da bomb. if remember correctly, the style, that is in the story line ( not to be confused with any real styles, as they were trying to "make one up" for his character) chiba is the only one that knows said style as his dad died and left his legacy to "terry"

[Oso]

Supposedly they usually wore common villagers clothes to not be noticed, and when on 'missions' in the palace or whatever they would wear clothes of the enemy, once again, to blend in and not be noticed.

But who knows. There's supposed to be a Chinese counterpart to the Japanese 'ninja', but I can't seem to find much info about it anywhere.

that would supposedly be the 'vagabonds' and vagabond style kung fu. if "The Skills of the Vagabonds" by Leung Ting is to be believed, a Hakka style in origin.

and THAT is why Ninjas Suck(TM)

[Lama Pai Sifu]

Have you guys ever heard of Chinese Ninjas?















Wait for it.....

























Exactly!

[Oso]

Have you guys ever heard of Chinese Ninjas?















Wait for it.....

























Exactly!

only because they are so much better than japanese ninjas.

i mean, they have 10x the cooler name: Vagabonds.

Totally hot name.

I mean...c'mon


ninjas



??????


wtf is cool about that name?


besides, I have the shirt that proves ninjas suck.

[lunghushan]

That doesn't make much sense though because vagabond is just another name for hakka (wanderer).

[Oso]

will you puhleeeeeze stop trying to make sense out of this perfectly ridiculous thread?

[rogue]

Ridiculous? What you talking bout Willis? This thread is about Sonny Chiba, and that's as real and serious as you can get.

One more bad word about ninjas and Sho Kosugi will hijack every beer truck heading to your town.:p

[Oso]

bahh...my door is always open to any two-bit-no-talent neenja who wants to come visit.

[rogue]

Ha, the gauntlet has been thrown down, expect a visit from the ninja master! Of course you'll never see or hear him, you'll just wake up with one eye brow shaved off and your left finger in a glass of warm water. At least that's how it went down at Ninja summer camp.

[Oso]

ppffffffttt

[rogue]

Well ppffffffttt and blech right back at you!

[Oso]

hush...i'm studying up on Stephen Oliver's latest marketing schemes...no time for neenjas now.

[Oso]

figured it would have happened sooner. :D

[Hatsuyuki]

Have you guys ever heard of Chinese Ninjas?

You mean Lin Kuei? :P

[Oso]

uh-oh....you done did it now.

the forest devils will be paying you a visit any night now....

[lonewolf]

i have heard of chinese ninjas. they would throw coins in the faces of there enemy, flick hanckerchiefs in the eyes. use gorund pepper in the face and put shoes on their hands to fight against a knife. simple effective weapons hidden in plain sight.

and if i hear anybody say anything bad about ninjas again they will get an hand full of coins thrown in their face like the naughty strippers they are.:mad:

[mickey]

Back on track,


The character name for Chiba's character character in The Streetfighter series actually means Polished Sword, a meaning that is, in a way, conceptually identical to the term "kung fu."

What really makes this series (Streetfigter one and two only) a classic is the choreography. They had a team of choreographers working on this series and they succeded in giving it a very raw quality. The only other classic to really rise above the others like this was Fist of Legend. There was a team working on that one, too.


mickey

[sanjuro_ronin]

Kicking ass and taking names !!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uAEABHMiycU

[sanjuro_ronin]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xG7c6VYqoVU

LOL !! Kids....

[sanjuro_ronin]

Holy Testicle Tuesday !!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bBPduMCUMFU

:eek:

[banditshaw]

Freakin Hilarious.
Chiba is the man!!

[kungpowmaster]

I think Sonny Chiba has to be my favorite martial arts actor, after Richard Harrison and Stuart Smith. He is just awesome, and his films are really well done, I think.

I also think, and this may be juvinile, that Sonny Chiba could have beat Bruce Lee, and Chuck Norris in an official match at their primes.

Anyway, back to the movies.
I have been collecting Sonny Chiba DVDs for a little while. I haven't watched them all yet, but I got the excellent sets of:

Lethal Chiba(I watched The Executioner)
Samurai Collection(I watched the 1st title.. Yagyu Conspiracy?)
Shogun Collection(I started GI Samurai but didn't finish it yet)
Sister Street Fighter Collection(I know Chiba is only in the 1st one, I watched the 2nd one)
Sonny Chiba Action Pack(I watched Bullet Train)
Welcome to the Grindhouse, Dragon Princess/Sister Street Fighter
Welcome to the Grindhouse, The Bodyguard/Karate Warriors
The Street Fighter/Return of the Street Fighter(on the Walmart Digiview label, kinda dark and grainy but WS)
I think BCI should give us the definitive Street Fighter set, of the 3 movies with original language options, trailors ect. They could do it as a double disc or a flipper, with The Street Fighter on one(side), and the 2 sequels on the other.
Street Fighter's Last Revenge(on Platinum DVD, very nice WS pic)
Terror Beneath the Sea(not a MA film, but great anyway)

I think this is all I have... which is about all one needs anyway... though I would like that Trilogy set he has, I can't recall the name, Matsayu? His master's name. Yeah I could look it up...

I want to give those Grindhouse discs a good viewing next. I sampled them, but I don't think I watched them all through.

My favorite Chiba movie is Killing Machine. I have this, and watched it only from the Brentwood 10 pack, which was dubbed and fullscreen, but it had a decent pic.

Comments welcome,

Chosen One

[jethro]

Yeah Killing Machine is pure awesomeness. My favorite from Chiba as well. I have the remastered Adness version and it makes the movie so much better.

Check out Soul of Bruce Lee aka Soul of Chiba sometime. Chiba looks so freaking good doing Hong Kong style action.

[Jimbo]

Killing Machine is, IMO, Chiba's best work.
I've seen Time Slip at Best Buy but have yet to pick it up (probably should've gotten it instead of Godzilla Raids Again). It's another title for G.I. Samurai, which I don't have.

kungpowmaster:
You may want to look up Legend of the Seven Monks. It has a good fight between Chiba and screen legend Yasuaki Kurata, and was filmed only about 2 to 3 years ago, I think. They both still look great in their 60s, but besides being younger, Kurata is clearly the better martial artist of the two (or at least the better-looking technically). Kinda makes you wonder what if they had screen fought in their primes...

[banditshaw]

Chiba does indeed rule as Japan's #1 Badass.

I needs to get me a primo edition of Killing Machine.



VIVA LA CHIBA!!

[sanjuro_ronin]

As much as it pains me to agree, Killing Machine ( the "autobiography" of Doshin So) was his best, even better than his "Oyama" Trilogy.

[GeneChing]

Sonny Chiba and the SUSHI GIRL (http://ezine.kungfumagazine.com/ezine/article.php?article=981) by Greg Lynch Jr.

[GeneChing]

Sonny Chiba Cuts Four-Picture Deal With Assembly Line (Exclusive) (http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/heat-vision/sonny-chiba-cuts-four-picture-258890)
The 72-year-old martial arts master will first star in the action drama "Bushido."
1:42 PM PST 11/9/2011 by Jay A. Fernandez

http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/sites/default/files/imagecache/thumbnail_large_300x401/2011/11/sonny_chiba_a_p.jpg
Iconic Japanese martial arts master Sonny Chiba has signed a four-picture deal with Assembly Line. The 72-year-old actor-director will kick off the pact by co-starring with Tony Todd in the action drama Bushido.
Based on an original story from Chiba, Bushido 

follows a band of Buffalo Soldiers and Japanese samurai serving together in the American Civil War. Assembly Line partners Neal Fischer, Destin Pfaff, Kern Saxton and Suren M. Seron will produce. Three more action projects will follow.
“This first project falls right up the alley of why Assembly Line was assembled, to create high quality films in a variety of genres," said the Gersh-repped Pfaff (Millionaire Matchmaker). "We couldn't be happier to be partnering with a legend such as Sonny Chiba.”
Chiba and Assembly Line previously teamed on Sushi Girl, which was written by Pfaff and Saxton, who also directed. Todd, Chiba, Mark Hamill, Michael Biehn, Danny Trejo and Jeff Fahey star in the thriller.
Assembly Line is also developing Catalytic, Todd's directorial debut about a magician's road trip on the eve of a supernatural apocalypse.
Chiba has been making movies, including Quentin Tarantino's Kill Bill: Vol. 1 and Executioner, for 50 years.We told you about Sushi Girl 4 months ago. :cool:

[enoajnin]

Whatever happened to Sushi Girl? Can't find a release date.

[Stickgrappler]

http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-xpAnEfj7U-4/UuIO0H6qmbI/AAAAAAAAFa8/nj5dY5JF1cQ/s1600/sonny-chiba-bday.jpg


http://www.stickgrappler.net/2014/01/happy-75th-birthday-sonny-chiba.html

Posted to site yesterday and didn't get a chance to post here

Happy 75th Bday Sonny Chiba!!


In addition to the 5 vidclips in the tribute post above, posted 3 movies:

Interesting Quentin Tarantino/Pulp Fiction trivia about this movie
http://www.stickgrappler.net/2014/01/sonny-chiba-in-karate-kiba-1976-full.html
Karate Kiba aka The Bodyguard



http://www.stickgrappler.net/2014/01/sonny-chiba-in-street-fighter-1974-full.html

http://www.stickgrappler.net/2014/01/sonny-chibas-return-of-street-fighter.html


Chiba-sama, happy birthday!!

[GeneChing]

Sonny Chiba Dies: ‘Kill Bill’ Actor & Martial Arts Legend Was 82 (https://deadline.com/2021/08/sonny-chiba-dies-kill-bill-actor-martial-artist-82-1234817875/)
By Tom Grater
International Film Reporter
@tomsmovies

August 19, 2021 7:48am
https://deadline.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/08/AP262127140455-e1629384454304.jpg?w=681&h=383&crop=1
Sonny Chiba
AP
Sonny Chiba, the Japanese actor and martial artist known internationally for appearing in the Kill Bill films and The Fast and the Furious, died of Covid complications, his agent confirmed to Deadline. He was 82.

“He was a great friend and an awesome client. Such a humble, caring and friendly man. I will surely miss him,” said the actor’s agent Timothy Beal.

Chiba was a prolific actor in Japanese film and TV, racking up more than 125 credits for the famed Toei studios, and was also a noted stunt choreographer. In his later career, he attracted attention internationally by playing the sushi chef and retired samurai Hattori Hanzo in Quentin Tarantino’s Kill Bill: Volume 1 and Volume 2. Tarantino was a noted fan of Chiba; in his screenplay for True Romance, Christian Slater’s character is a fan of the actor.

After being talent spotted by the famed Toei film studio in the 1960s, Chiba (born Sadaho Maeda) starred in a variety of TV series before appearing in breakthrough film The Street Fighter, which was an international hit and led to New Line Cinema founder Robert Shaye dubbing the actor ‘Sonny’.

He then appeared in a swathe of martial arts movies through the 1970s, 80s and 90s, acting and coordinating stunts, as well as on occasion directing.

Chiba would go on to act in Takashi Miike’s Deadly Outlaw: Rekka, Battle Royale II and The Fast and the Furious: Tokyo Drift.

Here is a reminder of his skills, from an English language trailer for his 1974 breakthrough, The Street Fighter, which helpfully added X-rays as blows landed to help audiences understand the damage inflicted by Chiba’s lightning quick fists and feet:


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=537MurkV2uU
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