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  • The Triple Cross
  • The Triple Cross review by ThunderkickBill from London, England
    Rated - 5.0 stars A heist gone wrong that's so very right! 3 June 2007
    ...st of likeable, interesting and often crazy characters (the always entertaining Sonny Chiba being one of them) and it's unique and fast paced style set this high above the...   Read customer review
  • Shogun's Samurai
  • Shogun's Samurai review by Stevieb47 from poole
    Rated - 5.0 stars Epic Stuff 30 January 2005
    ...e is trying to do but at the tragidy unfolds you realise what a monster he is. Sonny Chiba is equally good as his eldest son who bears the brunt of one consequence of his...   Read customer review
  • Kill Bill - Vol. 1
  • Kill Bill - Vol. 1 review by from London
    Rated - 2.0 stars Kill Bill or Kill Quentin? 18 December 2006
    ...essive & over the top. Quentin's reputation has dropped a few notches. At least Sonny Chiba was good in it! ...   Read customer review

Sonny Chiba - filmography


  • Survive Style 5+ on DVD (2004)
    Starring: Sonny Chiba,  Vinnie Jones,  Tadanobu Asano
    Director: Gen Sekiguchi
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
    Directorial debut feature of acclaimed Japanese commercials director Gen Sekiguchi, intertwining a quintet of bizarre and seemingly unrelated storylines that eventually collide. A homicidal husband murders his wife and buries her body in the woods, but she refuses to stay dead and repeatedly ..read more »
    3.5 stars out of 5 70% from 1,198 member
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  • Kill Bill - Vol. 1 on DVD (2003)
    Starring: Sonny Chiba,  Uma Thurman,  Michael Parks
    Director: Quentin Tarantino
    Certificate: Certificate: 18
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    Quentin Tarantino returns to the director's chair with KILL BILL after a six-year hiatus. The movie proves once again that he is a hyperactive visionary and the master of cinematic coolness. Split into two volumes by Miramax in order to ensure that Tarantino's vision would not be compromised (and ..read more »
    3.5 stars out of 5 72% from 95,415 members
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  • Kill Bill - Vol.1 - Blu-ray (2003)
    Starring: Sonny Chiba,  Uma Thurman,  Michael Parks
    Director: Quentin Tarantino
    Certificate: Certificate: 18
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    The return of renowned filmmaker Quentin Tarantino after an absence of 6 years. Uma Thurman stars as The Bride, one-fifth of a team of assassins called DiVAS. When she decides to get married and leave the outfit her boss, Bill (David Carradine), is not a happy man and gets her former colleagues to ..read more »
    4 stars out of 5 79% from 3,679 members
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  • Deadly Outlaw - Rekka on DVD (2002)
    Starring: Sonny Chiba,  Ryosuke Miki,  Riki Takeuchi
    Director: Takashi Miike,  Takashi Miike
    Certificate: Certificate: 18
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    Crime thriller from cult director Takashi Miike. When Kunisada (Riki Takeuchi) discovers that his Yakuza boss has been killed, he becomes determined to avenge his death. However, as Kunisada tracks down his rivals, he reveals dodgy dealings within his own gang which results in him being pursued on ..read more »
    3 stars out of 5 56% from 84 members
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  • Born to Be King (2000)
    Starring: Ekin Cheng,  Jordan Chan,  Sonny Chiba
    Director: Wai Keung Lau
    Certificate: Certificate: TBC
    Triad member Chicken is designated by Taiwan's San Luen Gang to marry Nanako, the daughter of the fifth generation leader of the Yamada Gang in Japan. Later, the leader of the triad group gets murdered. Actually, all the San Luen Gang members suspect Chicken attacked their leader Liu, in order to ..read more »
    3 stars out of 5 62% from 22 members
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  • The Stormriders (2 discs) on DVD (1998)
    Starring: Qi Shu,  Sonny Chiba,  Aaron Kwok
    Director: Wai Keung Lau
    Certificate: Certificate: 12
    Following the advice of his servant Mud Buddah, Lord Conqueror (Sonny Chiba) takes two children - Wind (Ekin Cheng) and Cloud (Aaron Kwok) - into his home and trains them as his disciples. Ten years later, Wind and Cloud have become powerful warriors, but they come to blows over Lord Conqueror's ..read more »
    3 stars out of 5 59% from 851 members
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  • The Triple Cross on DVD (1992)
    Starring: Sonny Chiba,  Kenichi Hagiwara,  Kazuya Kimura
    Director: Kinji Fukasaku
    Certificate: Certificate: 18
    Three ageing gangsters pull off one last heist to raise much-needed cash for their various debts. However, the money obtained is not enough to keep them all happy, and elaborate double and triplecrossing begins to take place. Directed by Kinji Fukusaku ('Battle Royale').
    3 stars out of 5 54% from 194 members
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  • Sure Death Revenge on DVD (1987)
    Starring: Sonny Chiba,  Kazuko Kato,  Renji Ishibashi
    Director: Kinji Fukasaku
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
    Mondo Nakamura teams up with top spinning avenger Bunishichi to stop a gang of wild samurai who are terrorising the peasants. But these samurai are only the start, and the forces may lead them to the Shogun himself.
    2.5 stars out of 5 47% from 77 members
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  • Legend Of The Eight Samurai on DVD (1983)
    Starring: Sonny Chiba
    Director: Saromi Hakkenden
    Certificate: Certificate: TBC
    Japanese martial arts action, starring Sonny Chiba. When the evil Hikita clan rise from the dead to brutally murder the family of the Princess Shizu (Hiroko Yakushimaru), in order to fulfill an ancient curse, the princess turns to eight legendary samurai warriors to avenge her.
    2.5 stars out of 5 53% from 95 members
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  • Ninja Wars on DVD (1982)
    Starring: Sonny Chiba
    Director: Mitsumasa Saito
    Certificate: Certificate: 18
    Japanese martial arts action starring Sonny Chiba. An ancient prophecy states that whoever wins the love of Princess Ukio will become the ruler of Japan, and so the evil Lord Danjo gathers together his forces and makes his plans to seduce her. Young Jotaro is in love with the princess though, and ..read more »
    2.5 stars out of 5 53% from 105 members
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  • G.I. Samurai on DVD (1979)
    Starring: Sonny Chiba
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
    Japanese sci fi action starring Sonny Chiba. A group of Japanese soldiers find themselves mysteriously transported back in time to the sixteenth century and become embroiled in an ongoing fued between rival samurai clans to install their leader as the supreme Shogun. With their modern weapons, will ..read more »
    3 stars out of 5 57% from 246 members
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  • Shogun's Samurai on DVD (1978)
    Starring: Sonny Chiba,  Yoshio Harada,  Hiroki Matsukata
    Director: Kinji Fukasaku
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
    Sonny Chiba and Toshiro Mifune star in director Kinji Fukasaku's samurai drama. The year is 1624 and the death of Shogunate General Hidetada has resulted in a conflict between his two sons over who should inherit his position. Various samurai warriors soon join the conflict, taking up sides against ..read more »
    3 stars out of 5 62% from 631 members
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  • Golgo 13 on DVD (1977)
    Starring: Sonny Chiba
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
    Japanese gangster action, starring Sonny Chiba. Golgo 13 (Chiba) is the underworld's top hitman, but when he is hired to kill a drugs lord in Hong Kong, he is shocked to find that a rival assassin has beaten him to it. Even worse, it looks as if Golgo 13 has been set up, and before long the police ..read more »
    3 stars out of 5 57% from 179 members
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  • The Killing Machine on DVD (1975)
    Starring: Sonny Chiba,  Yutaka Nakajima,  Asao Koike
    Director: Norifumi Suzuki
    Certificate: Certificate: 18
    Martial arts favourite Sonny Chiba stars as a soldier who returns to Japan after WWII to discover that black marketeers have taken over his old stomping grounds. He opens a karate school and attempts to help a group of orphans, as well as a young girl who has been forced to become a prostitute in ..read more »
    3 stars out of 5 62% from 413 members
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  • The Bullet Train on DVD (1975)
    Starring: Sonny Chiba,  Eiji Go
    Director: Junya Sato
    Certificate: Certificate: PG
    Japanese action drama starring Sonny Chiba. When a deranged madman places a bomb on the Tokyo to Hataka bullet train, a bomb that will detonate if the train drops to below 80 kilometres per hour, heroic conductor Aoki (Chiba) races against time to disarm it, before it's too late.
    3 stars out of 5 55% from 122 members
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  • Streetfighter's Last Revenge on DVD (1974)
    Starring: Sonny Chiba
    Director: Teruo Ishii
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
    Terry Tsugury (Sonny Chiba) returns in this martial arts, action movie. This time hired by the Owada clan, Tsurugi (Chiba) must rescue cassette tapes containing a formula to assist in the cheap manufacture of heroin.
    3 stars out of 5 58% from 207 members
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  • The Streetfighter on DVD (1974)
    Starring: Sonny Chiba
    Director: Shigehiro Ozawa
    Certificate: Certificate: 18
    Three features. In 'The Street Fighter', when an important businessman dies leaving his fortunes to his daughter, the Mafia attempt to hire Terry to kidnap her. When they refuse to meet his price, they attempt to kill him, while he turns his attentions to secretly protecting the daughter. Also ..read more »
    3.5 stars out of 5 64% from 810 members
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Sonny Chiba facts

5 most recent films

Survive Style 5+ - 3.5 stars
Kill Bill - Vol. 1 - 3.5 stars
Kill Bill - Vol.1 - Blu-ray - 4.0 stars
Deadly Outlaw - Rekka - 3.0 stars
Born to Be King - 3.0 stars

5 highest-rated films

Kill Bill - Vol.1 - Blu-ray - 4.0 stars
Kill Bill - Vol. 1 - 3.5 stars
Survive Style 5+ - 3.5 stars
The Streetfighter - 3.5 stars
The Killing Machine - 3.0 stars

5 lowest-rated films

Born to Be King - 3.0 stars
Sure Death Revenge - 2.5 stars
Yazuka Deka - The Assassin - 2.5 stars
The Resurrection Of The Golden Wolf - 2.5 stars
Yakuza Deka - 2.5 stars

Most frequent co-stars

Ekin Cheng - 4 times - show films
Qi Shu - 4 times - show films
Michael Madsen - 3 times - show films
Aaron Kwok - 3 times - show films
Lucy Liu - 3 times - show films

Most frequent directors

Kinji Fukasaku - 4 times - show films
Wai Keung Lau - 4 times - show films
Quentin Tarantino - 3 times - show films
none - 3 times - show films
Takashi Miike - 2 times - show films