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He was a protégé of Sonny Chiba in the latter's Japan Action Club, a school for training future actors to be well-versed in acting, martial arts techniques, and historical traditions. That's why Sanada could be an advisor for historical accuracy in Shōgun He was the male lead in the original (lower budget and superior) Japanese version[...]

His first major crossover success came in 1974's The Street Fighter that garnered a rare X-rating for its violence. Actor SONNY CHIBA at the Los Angeles premiere of his new movie Kill Bill Sept 29, 2003 Editorial credit: Featureflash Photo Agency / Shutterstock.com Other notable early work for Chiba in the 1960s was a series of Japanese[...]

It spawned anime series, a live-action movie starring Sonny Chiba and video games Viz Media published a "best of" selection of Golgo 13 stories in 13 volumes in English.   Golgo 13, the famed hitman manga by Takao Saito, is going on hiatus because of the coronavirus pandemic This is the first time the series has[...]