He came to distance himself from the violence-drenched “Street Fighter” films - “That sort of performance is not the performance I am particularly proud of as an actor,” he told The Times in 2003 - but he looked more kindly on his work with Mr. Chiba made numerous movies, mostly samurai dramas, with the Japanese director Kinji Fukasaku, who gave him some of his earliest roles. His acting career received a boost when he was signed by Japan’s Toei studio in the early 1960s. Chiba, who also acted under the name Shinichi Chiba, was born Sadaho Maeda on Jan.
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Chiba had been lined up for a role in a zombie movie called “Outbreak Z.” He was a Yakuza boss in “The Fast and the Furious: Tokyo Drift” in 2006 and a sushi chef in the noir thriller “Sushi Girl” in 2012, among other roles. The movie-geek in-jokes are sometimes amusing and sometimes annoying.” “How cool is that? Way too cool? Not cool enough? As I said, it depends. Tarantino seems to be saying, Sonny Chiba’s in my movie,” he wrote. Scott, reviewing the movie in The New York Times, got the reference but wasn’t enamored of it.
Chiba as the sword maker Hattori Hanzo, who provides Uma Thurman’s vengeful character with her weapon. “The Street Fighter” and other Chiba movies made an impression on Mr. Weiler wrote in a brief review in The New York Times in 1975, when the movie played in New York, “this Japanese-made, English-dubbed import illustrates that its inane violence deserves the X rating with which it has been labeled.” In 1996, when a DVD of the film was released, The Los Angeles Times said it was being “presented complete and uncut in all its eye-gouging, testicle-ripping, skull-pounding glory.”
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