Sonny Chiba

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: Acting

Born: Fukuoka, Fukuoka Prefecture, Japan, 1939-01-23

Died: 2021-08-19

No.	Year	Title	Role	Vote Average
1	1959	Nanairo Kamen	Kotaro Ran	0
2	1960	Messenger of Allah	Detective Goro Narumi / Messenger of Allah	0
3	1973	Robot Detective	Keitarō Shinjō	87
4	1974	The Bodyguard		0
5	1976	Daihijôsen		0
6	1978	Juujiro		0
7	1978	The Yagyu Conspiracy	Yagyu Yubei	70
8	1980	Shadow Warriors	Hattori Hanzō	80
9	1980	Yagyu's Secret Quest	Yagyu Jubei	0
10	1982	Space Sheriff Gavan	Space Sheriff Voicer	79
11	1982	Yagyu Jubei Secret Quest	Yagyu Jubei	100
12	1983	Space Sheriff Sharivan	Voicer (in flashback)	81
13	1988	Tokugawa Ieyasu		0
14	1989	Oda Nobunaga		0
15	1989	Yume ni Mita Hibi	Sekimoto Shinsaku	0
16	1991	Takeda Shingen	Takeda Nobutora	0
17	1992	Notes on Tokugawa Villainies	Matsudaira Tadateru	0
18	1996	Seiryuu Densetsu		0
19	2001	Shotgun Marriage	Ittetsu Kotani	80
20	2002	Wind and Cloud	雄霸	73
21	2004	风云争霸	东方青木 / 东方白石	80
22	2005	Team Astro	Shuro	73
23	2007	Samurai Banners		75
24	2021	Layout		0

Sonny Chiba

Film

Television

No.	Year	Title	Role	Vote Average
1	1961	Police Department Story Pt.15: Alibi		0
2	1961	Police Precinct: 15 Year Old Woman	Detective Nakagawa	0
3	1961	Drifting Detective: Tragedy in the Red Valley	Goro Saionji	50
4	1961	Drifting Detective: Black Wind in Harbor		60
5	1961	Invasion of the Neptune Men	Tachibana - Scientist / Space Chief	28
6	1961	Man with the Funky Hat		0
7	1961	Police Precinct Part 17	Detective Nakagawa	0
8	1961	Man with a Funky Hat: The 20,000,000 Yen Arm		60
9	1961	Tale of a Company Boss 3	Nagashima	0
10	1962	South Pacific Waves Are High		0
11	1962	Love School		0
12	1962	The Escape		70
13	1962	All Rascals		0
14	1962	あの空の果てに星はまたたく		0
15	1962	Zankokuna tsuki		0
16	1962	Four Sisters	Shinkichi Hayami	60
17	1962	Mid-August Commotion		0
18	1962	Gang vs. G-Men		60
19	1962	The King		0
20	1962	Fearful Witch		0
21	1963	次郎長社長と石松社員安来ぶし道中		0
22	1963	Judo Life		0
23	1963	Gambler Tales of Hasshu: A Man's Pledge		0
24	1963	浅草の侠客		0
25	1963	Song of Yakuza		0
26	1963	The Navy	Takao	0
27	1963	Gang Loyalty and Vengeance		50
28	1963	A Life of Intimidation		0
29	1964	Orders from Hell		0
30	1964	Judo Hall Demon		0
31	1964	売春地下組織		0
32	1964	Here Because of You		55
33	1964	Two Lives, Two Yakuza	Shinichi Matsuhashi	0
34	1965	That Cute Girl		0
35	1965	Tale of Japanese Burglars	Lawyer Ohki	68
36	1965	おゝい雲！		0
37	1965	Yakuza G-Men	Toru Sasayama	0
38	1965	Code of Ruffians		50
39	1965	Prison Walls of Abashiri 4		0
40	1966	Night Bitch		0
41	1966	The Kamikaze Guy	Mitarai Ken	50
42	1966	Terror Beneath the Sea	Ken Abe	53
43	1966	Abashiri Prison: Duel in the South		0
44	1966	Dash to the Sun		0
45	1966	Game of Chance	Bungo Endo	60
46	1966	The Golden Bat	Dr. Yamatone	58
47	1967	Organized Violence		60
48	1967	Game of Chance 2		60
49	1967	Classmates	Second Sublieutenant Hanzawa	65
50	1967	North Sea Chivalry		0
51	1967	King of the Gang		0
52	1967	Game of Chance 3		50
53	1967	The Rickshaw Man’s Son	Komakichi Sugimoto	0
54	1968	Human Torpedoes		0
55	1968	Army Intelligence	Kazuo Yamamoto	0
56	1968	The Young Eagles of the Kamikaze		60
57	1969	Delinquent Boss: Wolves of the City	Mitsuo Fujiki	70
58	1969	Memoir of Japanese Assassinations	Sho Onuma	70
59	1970	A Kamikaze Cop	Hayata Shiro	58
60	1970	Kamikaze Cop, Marihuana Syndicate		64
61	1970	The Last Kamikaze	Captain Mishima	60
62	1971	Kamikaze Cop, The Poison Gas Affair	Shiro Hayata	0
63	1971	Kamikaze Cop, No Epitaph to Us	Shiro Hayata	0
64	1972	Yakuza Wolf: I Perform Murder	Gosuke Himuro	68
65	1972	A Narcotics Agent's Ballad		70
66	1972	Wandering Ginza Butterfly: She-Cat Gambler	Ryuji	80
67	1972	Yakuza Wolf 2: Extend My Condolences	Toru Ibuki	65
68	1972	The Horrible Obsessions	Haruo Kikuchi	65
69	1973	Battles Without Honor and Humanity: Deadly Fight in Hiroshima	Katsutoshi Otomo	74
70	1973	The Bodyguard	Naoto Kiba	49
71	1973	Robot Detective: The Movie	Keitaro Shinjo	0
72	1973	Tokyo-Seoul-Bangkok Drug Triangle	Tatsuya Wada	0
73	1973	Murderous Love		0
74	1973	Karate Killer	Naoto Kiba	59
75	1974	The Street Fighter	Takuma Tsurugi	69
76	1974	Return of the Street Fighter	Takuma Tsurugi	60
77	1974	Miracle on Lubang Island: Army Nakano School		0
78	1974	The Executioner	Ryuichi Koga	66
79	1974	Sister Street Fighter	Seiichi Hibiki	66
80	1974	The Street Fighter's Last Revenge	Takuma Tsurguri	56
81	1974	The Executioner II: Karate Inferno	Ryuichi Koga	55
82	1975	13 Steps of Maki: The Young Aristocrats	Kenichi Hyuga	62
83	1975	Wolf Guy	Akira Inugami	59
84	1975	The Bullet Train	Aoki	68
85	1975	Karate Bullfighter	Sensei Masutatsu Oyama	65
86	1975	Detonation: Violent Riders		80
87	1975	New Battles Without Honor and Humanity 2: Head of the Boss	Bartender	69
88	1975	The Decisive Power of Aikido		78
89	1975	Karate Bear Fighter	Mas Oyama	68
90	1976	Dragon Princess	Kazuma Higaki	58
91	1976	The Killing Machine	Doshin So	53
92	1976	The Machine Gun Dragon		63
93	1976	Karate Warriors	Shuuhei Sakata	70
94	1976	The Rugby Star		100
95	1976	Jail Breakers	Wataru Kangi	52
96	1976	The Great Okinawa Yakuza War	Seigou Kunigami	70
97	1977	Japan's Don	Tsuneyoshi Sakota	75
98	1977	Soul of Chiba	Mu Yun Tek	60
99	1977	Hokuriku Proxy War	Kanai Hachiro	69
100	1977	Karate for Life	Sensei Masutatsu Oyama	66
101	1977	Japanese Humanity and Justice		70
102	1977	Doberman Cop	Joji Kano	67
103	1977	Truckster of Guts		0
104	1977	Golgo 13: Assignment Kowloon	Duke Togo (Golgo 13)	54
105	1977	Black Jack: The Visitor in the Eye	Drunkard	55
106	1978	Shogun's Samurai	Jûbê Yagyû	70
107	1978	Message from Space	Prince Hans	58
108	1978	The Okinawa War of Ten Years		60
109	1978	The Fall of Ako Castle	Fuwa Kazuemon	66
110	1979	Hunter in the Dark	Samon Shimoguni	65
111	1979	Dead Angle		70
112	1979	The Resurrection of the Golden Wolf	Mitsuhiko Sakurai	58
113	1979	G.I. Samurai	Lt. Yoshiaki Iba	60
114	1980	Battles Without Honor and Humanity: The Complete Saga	Katsutoshi Otomo	67
115	1980	Tokyo Earthquake Magnitude 8.1		0
116	1980	Virus	Dr. Yamauchi	63
117	1980	Shogun's Ninja	Shiranui Shogen	62
118	1981	Samurai Reincarnation	Jubei Yagyu	60
119	1981	The Bushido Blade	Prince Ido	54
120	1981	Roaring Fire	Mr. Magic	64
121	1981	Kamikaze, the Adventurer	Daisuke Kamikaze	56
122	1982	Fall Guy		61
123	1982	Ninja Wars	Shinzaemon Yagyu	55
124	1983	Kabamaru the Ninja Boy	Iga no Saizo	45
125	1983	Legend of the Eight Samurai	Inuyama Dosetsu Tadatomo	59
126	1984	The Awesome Circus Bastard	Maejima Daigaku	0
127	1984	Space Sheriff Shaider: The Movie	Shaider (Voice)	60
128	1984	Kotaro, An Audacious Karate Boy	Sonny Sullivan	50
129	1984	Space Sheriff Shaider: Pursuit! The Strange Kidnappers!	Shaider (Voice)	60
130	1985	Amazing Masters of Martial Arts	Self	75
131	1985	The Last True Yakuza	Ryozo Kano	48
132	1986	Cabaret	Yakuza boss	47
133	1987	Taikoki		80
134	1987	Sure Death 4	Bunshichi	66
135	1988	Tokugawa Ieyasu – TBS Warlord Special		0
136	1989	Iemitsu, Hikoza and Isshin Tasuke - A National Crisis: Edo Castle in Danger	Yagyu Jubei	0
137	1989	Shogun's Shadow	Iba Shoemon	69
138	1989	Tetsuro Tamba's Great Spirit World: What Happens When You Die		0
139	1989	Sensei	Makoto Ushiyama	0
140	1990	Shingo's Ten Duels	Umei Tamon	0
141	1990	Seventeen Ninja		0
142	1990	Minamoto Yoshitsune		0
143	1991	Takeda Shingen		0
144	1991	Saito Dosan: Rage of Power	Mitsutsugu Akechi	65
145	1991	Yakuza Warfare		60
146	1992	Fighting Fist	Supt. Yamada	50
147	1992	Iron Eagle III	Horikoshi	41
148	1992	The Triple Cross	Chiba	62
149	1994	Immortal Combat	Jiro 'J.J.' Jintani	51
150	1995	Body Count	Makato	51
151	1998	The Storm Riders	Lord Conqueror	65
152	1998	Masters of the Martial Arts Presented by Wesley Snipes	Self (archive footage)	85
153	2000	Legend of the Flying Swordsman	Dagger	35
154	2000	Born to Be King	Ichiro Kusakari	61
155	2000	Hakata Movie: Chinchiromai		0
156	2001	Lonely Hitman: The Blue Wolf		0
157	2001	Akumyoh 2		0
158	2002	Deadly Outlaw: Rekka	Yasunori Hijikata	67
159	2003	New Shadow Warriors	Hattori Hanzo I	100
160	2003	New Shadow Warriors II	Hattori Hanzo I	100
161	2003	Battle Royale II: Requiem	Makio Mimura	50
162	2003	New Shadow Warriors III: Jiraika 1	Hattori Hanzo I	70
163	2003	Kill Bill: Vol. 1	Hattori Hanzo	80
164	2004	Explosive City	Otosan	66
165	2004	Sarutobi Sasuke and the Army of Darkness 3 - The Wind Chapter		75
166	2004	Kill Bill: Vol. 2	Hattori Hanzo	79
167	2004	New Shadow Warriors IV: Jiraika 2	Hattori Hanzo I	70
168	2004	Survive Style 5+	Azama	73
169	2005	Sarutobi Sasuke and the Army of Darkness 4 - The Fire Chapter	Yagyu Jubei	0
170	2005	New Shadow Warriors V: Hattori Hanzo vs Onmyoji	Hattori Hanzo I	0
171	2005	New Shadow Warriors VI: The Final Chapter	Hattori Hanzo I	0
172	2006	Legend of Seven Monks		48
173	2006	Tarantino's Mind	(archive footage)	70
174	2006	The Fast and the Furious: Tokyo Drift	Uncle Kamata	65
175	2007	Oyaji	Ryudo Numata	100
176	2009	Yakuza Eiga, une histoire du cinéma yakuza	Himself	70
177	2009	Yakuza Legacy		0
178	2009	千年の松完結編		0
179	2011	Kill Bill: The Whole Bloody Affair	Hattori Hanzo	80
180	2012	修羅の花道		0
181	2012	修羅の花道2		0
182	2012	The Legend of Space Sheriff Gavan	Space Sheriff Voicer	100
183	2012	Sushi Girl	Sushi Chef	55
184	2013	Don's Road 6		0
185	2013	Sushi Girl: A Documentary	Self	0
186	2013	Don's Road 7		0
187	2013	Don's Road 8		0
188	2013	Unification Of Japan	Seizo Gonda	53
189	2013	Don's Road 9		95
190	2013	Unification Of Japan 2	Seizo Gonda	0
191	2014	修羅の伝承荒ぶる凶犬		0
192	2014	Kabukicho High School		0
193	2014	Kanto Gangster Federation: Chapter 1		0
194	2015	Kanto Gangster Federation: Chapter 2		0
195	2015	The Noise		100
196	2015	Take a Chance	Musashi	100
197	2015	Biohazard: The Stage	Ezra Sennett	90
198	2016	Masaaki Hatsumi: Living Ninja Legend		100
199	2017	Gokudō tenka fubu		0
200	2017	Gokudō Tenka Fubu: Act 2		0
201	2017	Gokudō Tenka Fubu: Act 4		0
202	2017	Shashin Koshien Summer in 0.5 Seconds		80
203	2018	Shakespeare In Tokyo	Calligrapher	70
204	2019	Street Fighting Man: An Interview with Sonny Chiba	Self	0
205	2023	Bond of Justice: Kizuna Part I - Encounter	Jou	0
206	2024	Bond of Justice: Kizuna Part II - Judgement	Jou	0