{"id":4471,"date":"2021-08-19T13:41:33","date_gmt":"2021-08-19T17:41:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cinemadailyus.com\/?p=4471"},"modified":"2023-12-12T03:45:10","modified_gmt":"2023-12-12T08:45:10","slug":"actor-sonny-chiba-died-at-82-from-covid-complications","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cinemadailyus.com\/?p=4471","title":{"rendered":"Actor Sonny Chiba Died at 82 from COVID Complications"},"content":{"rendered":"

Japanese actor and martial artist Sonny Chiba has passed away from pneumonia caused by COVID-19, his manager shared with Oricon News in Japan, as reported by Variety<\/a>. Chiba had been in the hospital since August 8th<\/sup>. Born on January 22nd<\/sup>, 1939 in Fukuoka, Japan as Sadaho Maeda, he enjoyed a successful career training in Karate under Masutatsu “Mas” Oyama, a master he portrayed in a 1970s trilogy. He attended Nippon Sport Science University, where he first began studying martial arts.<\/p>\n

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Throughout his life, he achieved numerous black belts, beginning with his first in 1965 and a fourth-degree black belt in 1984, along with black belts in ninjutsu, shorinji kempo, judo, kendo and goju-ryu karate.<\/p>\n

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He had many early roles on Japanese superhero shows such as Seven Color Mask <\/em><\/strong>and Messenger of Allah<\/em><\/strong>, in addition to director Kinji Fukasaku\u2019s crime thrillers and the 1968-1973 TV series Key Hunter<\/em><\/strong>.<\/p>\n

After making his first martial arts film, Karate Kiba<\/em><\/strong>, in 1973, Chiba appeared the following year in The Street Fighter<\/em><\/strong>, which garnered an X rating in the United States. Three decades later, he would go on to star in an equally violent film, Kill Bill: Vol. 1<\/em><\/strong>. He is likely best known to American audiences for that film and for his portrayal of a Yakuza boss in The Fast and the Furious: Tokyo Drift<\/em><\/strong>.<\/p>\n

Chiba\u2019s latest and now final film, Bond of Justice: Kizuna<\/em><\/strong>, is currently in post-production and slated for release on October 1st<\/sup>. He was originally set to star alongside Jesse Ventura and Wesley Snipes in the zombie movie Outbreak Z <\/em><\/strong>before the pandemic.<\/p>\n

Among the tributes posted to Chiba\u2019s legacy was one from filmmaker Ted Geoghegan on Twitter<\/a>: \u201cThe great Sonny Chiba passed away today at age 82, another victim of Covid-19. A martial arts legend with six black belts who started out in tokusatsu TV, Chiba made over 120 movies for Toei and was Japan’s most popular action star for decades.<\/p>\n

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Japanese actor and martial artist Sonny Chiba has passed away from pneumonia caused by COVID-19, his manager shared with Oricon News in Japan, as reported by Variety. Chiba had been in the hospital since August 8th. 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