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The writer of True Romance, Quentin Tarantino, worked with Chiba ten years later in Kill Bill: Volume I, in which Chiba portrayed Katana master maker Hattori Hanzō [32] [33] in a vignette that combined comical interaction with his assistant, played by Kenji Ohba, with sombre references to traditional, Japanese sword making. [34]
The Japanese actor and martial arts legend had starring roles in American films like “Kill Bill” and “The Fast and The Furious: Tokyo Drift.” Sonny Chiba, 'Kill Bill' actor, dies at 82 of ...
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, his ...
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Chiba reprised the Hattori Hanzō character for Kill Bill. Quentin Tarantino stated in the supplementary material on the Kill Bill DVD that the character was named in tribute to Chiba's former role as Hattori Hanzō (the historical 16th-century Iga ninja) in Shadow Warriors (Kage no Gundan). The joke is that Chiba played multiple generations of ...
Kill Bill: Volume 1 is a 2003 American martial arts action film written and directed by Quentin Tarantino.It stars Uma Thurman as the Bride, who swears revenge on a group of assassins (Lucy Liu, Daryl Hannah, Vivica A. Fox and Michael Madsen) and their leader, Bill (David Carradine), after they try to kill her and her unborn child.
David Carradine (/ ˈ k ær ə d iː n / KARR-ə-deen; born John Arthur Carradine Jr.; December 8, 1936 – June 3, 2009) was an American actor, director, and producer, whose career included over 200 major and minor roles in film, television and on stage.
Actor Sonny Chiba played the role in the V-Cinema series Shin Kage no Gundan. Many films, specials and series on the life and times of Tokugawa Ieyasu depict the events detailed above. In the film Kill Bill, Hattori Hanzō (Sonny Chiba) is a master swordsmith who is called upon to create a katana for the film's protagonist. It has been implied ...