Shin'ichi "Sonny" Chiba's fighting style was less balletic than it was breathtakingly brutal. Chiba, a star of martial arts cinema in his native Japan, made his name by landing heart-stopping punches ...

Karate is the most popular martial art in the world and is commonly associated with Japan, but it did not originate there. Karate actually started out as the art of Te, meaning “hand”, on the Ryukyu ...

Sonny Chiba, famous in the West for his roles as Hanzo in Quentin Tarantino's Kill Bill and Uncle Kamata in The Fast and Furious: Tokyo Drift, has died aged 82. The Japanese actor and martial arts ...

Shin'ichi "Sonny" Chiba's fighting style was less balletic than it was breathtakingly brutal. Chiba, a star of martial arts cinema in his native Japan, made his name by landing heart-stopping punches ...

Shinichi “Sonny” Chiba, the Japanese actor and martial arts legend who had roles in American films like “Kill Bill” and “The Fast and the Furious: Tokyo Drift,” died on Thursday of COVID complications ...

Shin’ichi “Sonny” Chiba’s fighting style was less balletic than it was breathtakingly brutal. Chiba, a star of martial arts cinema in his native Japan, made his name by landing heart-stopping punches ...