Sonny Chiba

Sonny Chiba is well known in Japan as an action star actor, and also as a movie fight choreographer.  In Japan, two of his most memorable roles are as Yagyu Jubei and as Hattori Hanzo.  The Hattori Hanzo character got an American introduction in the movie, Kill Bill.  Chiba's name also got revived as he experienced popularity here as the star of the 1970 movies of  the Street Fighter movies.

Here is Sonny Chiba, along with regular co-stars Etsuko Shiomi and Hiroyuki Sanada in a scene from the film, Shogun's Samurai