Sonny Chiba, 82
The legendary Japanese actor Shinichi Sonny Chiba died on August 18th due to pneumonia. Famous for playing the lead roles in most of the 70s and 80s Japanese action blockbusters, Sonny Chiba redefined the genre internationally by dialing up the violence and gore levels in martial art movies that had been mostly bloodless, even most war movies.Chiba made his debut in the 1974 martial art classic Street Fighter and went on to star in other classics like Golgo 13, Yakuza Cop, and The Bullet Train. Even the Hollywood wild child director Quentin Tarantino was influenced by Chiba's movies, going on to cast him in his critically acclaimed cult classic Kill Bill.
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