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. 소니 치바(1939년생, Fukuoka, Fukuoka Prefecture, Japan) 는 배우로, 대표작으로 풍운, Sushi Girl, 전국자위대가 있으며, 그 외에도 킬 빌: 1부, 킬 빌: 2부, 킬 빌: 더 홀 블러디 어페어, 风云, 宇宙刑事ギャバン, キイハンター, 服部半蔵 影の軍団, 宇宙刑事シャリバン, 풍림화산, 七色仮面, 배틀 로얄 2: 레퀴엠, 패스트 & 퓨리어스: 도쿄 드리프트 등 다양한 작품에 출연했다. (오뜨랑에서 실시간으로 번역된 한글 프로필도 확인할 수 있어요) 2024년 Bond of Justice: Kizuna Part II - Judgement에서 Jou 역을 맡았다. 2023년 Bond of Justice: Kizuna Part I - Encounter에서 Jou 역을 맡았다. 2021년 布局에 출연했다.