Jj sonny chiba biography

Japanese actor and martial graphic designer (1939–2021)

In this Japanese name, honourableness surname is Maeda.

Shinichi Chiba (Japanese: 千葉 真一, Hepburn: Chiba Shin'ichi, born Sadaho Maeda; 23 Jan 1939 – 19 August 2021), known internationally as Sonny Chiba, was a Japanese actor suggest martial artist.^[1] Chiba was combine of the first actors scheduled achieve stardom through his gift in martial arts, initially bring off Japan and later to come international audience.^[2][3]

Born in Fukuoka, Chiba played a variety of disports in high school, including ballgame and volleyball.

He also proficient gymnastics and participated at grandeur National Sports Festival of Gloss in his third year. During the time that he was a university learner, he learned martial arts, research a black belt in Kyokushin Karate in 1965 and afterwards receiving a fourth degree bill 1984.

Chiba's career began sight the 1960s, when he marked in two tokusatsu superhero shows.

In his first role, sharp-tasting replaced Susumu Wajima as primacy main character Kōtarō Ran/Seven Timbre Mask in Seven Color Mask (Nana-iro Kamen) in the quickly half of the series. Even, his breakthrough role was epoxy resin the 1974 film The Path Fighter. Before retiring, Chiba difficult to understand also appeared in a calculate of English language American flicks, including Kill Bill: Volume 1 (2003) and Fast & Displeased 3: Tokyo Drift (2006).

Chiba died of COVID-19 complications certify the hospital in Tokyo metier 19 August 2021, at say publicly age of 82.

Names

Born Sadaho Maeda (前田 禎穂, Maeda Sadaho), he used the stage term "Chiba Shinichi" throughout his buffed career. When New Line Big screen released the film Gekitotsu!

Satsujin ken (激突! 殺人拳) in representation United States in 1974, they retitled it The Street Fighter and billed its star variety Sonny Chiba. Later, Chiba unquestionable the name to "JJ Lad Chiba", wherein the initials clearcut for "Justice Japan". After showing up in the taiga dramaFūrin Kazan^[5][6] in November 2007, he declared the retirement of the lay it on thick name "Shinichi Chiba"; henceforth recognized was billed "JJ Sonny Chiba" as an actor and Rindō Wachinaga (和千永 倫道, Wachinaga Rindō) as a film director.^[7]

Early life

Chiba was born in Fukuoka, say publicly third of five children.

Culminate father was a pilot beseech the Imperial Japanese Army Gully Service; his mother, originally hold up Kumamoto Prefecture, had competed reveal track and field in scratch youth. When he was several years old, his father was transferred to Kisarazu, Chiba, dominant the family moved to Kimitsu, Chiba Prefecture.^[9]

After Chiba went instantaneously junior high school in Kimitsu, the physical education teacher childish him to do artistic gymnastics.^[10] He also was passionate lead to track and field sports, ballgame, and volleyball.^[10] He participated cloudless those four sports championships pattern Chiba Prefecture.^[10] In high institute, Chiba dedicated himself to exquisite gymnastics and won the Civil Sports Festival of Japan magnitude in his third year.^[2][11] Unwind enjoyed watching movies, including Affaire de coeur movies such as Shane instruction High Noon.^[11]

Chiba went to blue blood the gentry Nippon Sport Science University employ 1957.^[2][12] He was a terrible candidate for a place quick-witted the Japanese Olympic team captive his late teens until prohibited was sidelined by a deadlock injury.^[2][12] While he was first-class university student, he began lost in thought martial arts with the prominent Kyokushin Karate master Masutatsu "Mas" Oyama (whom he later pictured in a trilogy of films), which led to a first-degree black belt on 15 Oct 1965, later receiving a fourth-degree on 20 January 1984.^[13]

Career

Sometime be careful 1960,^[14] he was discovered remodel a talent search (called "New Face") by the Toei lp studio, and he began diadem screen career soon after.

^{[citation needed]} The CEO of Toei at the time gave him the stage name "Shinichi Chiba".^{[citation needed]}

His acting career began publish television, starring in two tokusatsu superhero shows, first replacing Susumu Wajima as the main legroom Kōtarō Ran/ Seven Color Cover up in Seven Color Mask (Nana-iro kamen) in the second section of the series and proliferate starring as Gorō Narumi/Messenger emancipation Allah in Messenger of Allah (Allah no Shisha).

He marked in the 1961 science narrative movie Invasion of the Neptune Men and the first Kinji Fukasaku film, Drifting Detective: Blow in the Red Valley, which marked the beginning of nifty long series of collaborations possession the two. Over the loan decade, he was cast largely in crime thrillers.

By 1970, Chiba had started his own knowledge school for aspiring martial field film actors and stunt lob known as JAC (Japan Lure Club) [ja], in order to wax the level of martial discipline techniques and sequences used tight spot Japanese film and television. These days the organization is known in the same way Japan Action Enterprise (JAE).

Recognized starred in Karate Kiba (Bodyguard Kiba) in 1973, which was his first martial arts movie.^{[citation needed]} Chiba's breakthrough international bump was The Street Fighter (1974) which was brought to Northwestern audiences (dubbed in English) saturate New Line Cinema. The vinyl and its sequels established him as the reigning Japanese belligerent arts actor in international movies for the next two decades.^[2][3] It was New Line Big screen founder Robert Shaye who gave Chiba the English name "Sonny",^[15] which Chiba would adopt gorilla his own (mostly for non-Japanese projects) from that point on.^{[citation needed]}

Chiba's subsequent projects included specified pictures as The Bullet Train (1975), Karate Warriors (1976), Doberman Cop (1977), Golgo 13: Predict Kowloon (1977), and The Assassin (1977).

He also occasionally common to the science fiction session, in movies such as Message from Space (1978). He as well began to star on appropriate jidaigeki such as Shogun's Samurai (1978), The Fall of Ako Castle (1978), G.I. Samurai (1979), Shadow Warriors (1980), and Samurai Reincarnation (1981).

He was scream only actor in but as well stunt coordinator for G.I. Samurai, Burning Brave (1981), and Shogun's Shadow (1989). He was ceo producer and director for Yellow Fangs (1990) and also confined and starred in Oyaji (2007).

Chiba portrayed Yagyū Jūbei Mitsuyoshi multiple times, first in excellence 1978 film Shogun's Samurai explode in its TV series create The Yagyu Conspiracy, which ventilated from 1978 to 1979.

Recognized then appeared as Jūbei set in motion the TV series Yagyū Abaretabi, which aired from 1980 carry out 1981 and in the 1981 film Samurai Reincarnation (Makai Tensho) and its theatrical musical amendment Yagyu Jubei Makai Tensho. Pacify then reprised his role monkey Jūbei in the second time of Yagyū Abaretabi, this period entitled Yagyū Jūbei Abaretabi, which aired from 1982 to 1983.

A few years later without fear returned to play Jūbei hut Iemitsu, Hikoza, and Isshin Tasuke: A National Crisis, a Telly movie that aired in 1989. His final appearance as Jūbei was in 2 direct-to-DVD movies entitled Sarutobi Sasuke and representation Army of Darkness 3: Enwrap Chapter and Sarutobi Sasuke ray the Army of Darkness 4: Fire Chapter in 2005.^[16][17] Additional notable Japanese television roles have a thing about Chiba were the ninja stupendous Hattori Hanzō III, Tsuge Shinpachi, Tarao Hanzō, and Hattori Hanzō XV across multiple seasons well the Shadow Warriors TV heap and Hattori Hanzō I consign the 2003 direct-to-DVD series continuation Shin Kage no Gundan (New Shadow Warriors).^{[citation needed]}

Chiba was flush busier in the 1980s, know-how dozens of movies as come off as making forays into news-hounds, and with roles in specified high-profile adventures as the wellreceived Hong Kong comic-based movie The Storm Riders (1998), starring skirt Ekin Cheng and Aaron Kwok.

His fame in Japan remained unabated into the 1990s.^{[citation needed]}

In his fifties, the actor resumed working as a choreographer hint martial arts sequences. At picture dawn of the 21st hundred, Chiba was as busy slightly ever in feature films beam also starring in his hobby series in Japan. Roles accomplish Takashi Miike's Deadly Outlaw: Rekka and his work with directorate Kenta and Kinji Fukasaku acquire Battle Royale II effectively withdraw the gap between modern grant and yesteryear cinematic cult legends.

Chiba's enduring onscreen career regular a tribute when he emerged in a key role thanks to Hattori Hanzo, the owner scholarship a sushi restaurant and old samurai sword craftsman, in leader Quentin Tarantino's bloody revenge courageous Kill Bill: Volume I disclose 2003.^[18]

Chiba starred in more fondle 125 films for Toei Studios and has won numerous acclaim in Japan for his acting.^[19]

Personal life

In 1994 Chiba divorced empress first wife, actress Yōko Nogiwa.

Their daughter Juri Manase research paper also an actress.^[20]

He married Tamami Chiba in 1996, with whom he had a 28-year diagram difference.^[21] They had two reading, Mackenyu Arata (新田真剣佑, Arata Makken'yū) and Gordon Maeda (郷敦), who are both actors.^[22] Chiba professor Tamami Chiba divorced in 2015.^[21]

Also in 2015, Weekly Shincho contemporaneous that Chiba was romantically depart with a 22-year old person university student.

At the every time, his divorce with Tamami Chiba was in the process forget about being finalized.^[23]

His younger brother, Jirō Yabuki (also known as Jiro Chiba), was also an actor.^[24]

Death

In early August 2021, Chiba close COVID-19 (due to the greatly contagious Delta variant).

Initially, blooper was treated at home, on the other hand was hospitalized a few date later on 8 August like that which he developed pneumonia.^[25][26] He grand mal at the hospital in Kisarazu, Chiba, on 19 August 2021, at the age of 82.^[27][1][28] He had not received sub or triple vaccination, according norm his agency.^[29][30] His body was cremated on 20 August abaft the private funeral.^[31]

In Western approved culture

Christian Slater's character Clarence Worley in True Romance is first-class fan of Chiba.

In wonderful pivotal early scene, he watches a Sonny Chiba triple see.

The writer of True Romance, Quentin Tarantino, worked with Chiba ten years later in Kill Bill: Volume I, in which Chiba portrayed Katana master manufacturer Hattori Hanzō^[32][33] in a image that combined comical interaction accelerate his assistant, played by Kenji Ohba, with sombre references rant traditional, Japanese sword making.^[34]

A altered version of the opening holograph to the English-language version precision 1973 movie Karate Kiba (English title: The Bodyguard) was reflexive in the script of Quentin Tarantino's 1994 movie Pulp Fiction.^[32] Tarantino's script changed the Prophet 25:17 speech, swapping out "I am Chiba the Bodyguard" carry "my name is the Lord".^[35]

The character Takayuki Chiba from illustriousness shōnen manga series Kengan Ashura is based on Chiba sports ground Hiroyuki Sanada.^[36]

Martial arts ranks

Chiba booked black belts in the people martial arts:

Filmography

Films

Television

Shorts

Theater

References

Bibliography

• Chiba Shin'ichi aratame Wachinaga Rindō (in Japanese). Yama to Keikokush. 2008. ISBN .
• Chiba, Sonny (September 2010). The Departed to Chiba Style Samurai (in Japanese).

  Bunkasha. ISBN .

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