The actor and martial arts legend had a number of leading Japanese film and TV roles before breaking out internationally in 1974’s 'The Street Fighter.'
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, where he appeared in the lead role of Takuma Tsurugi. Released in the U.S. by New Line Cinema, the film earned an X-rating due to its level of violence and spurred several sequels and spin-offs in which Chiba appeared. A year before that, he starred in 1973’sallowed him to show off his martial arts expertise.
Chiba worked on several notable American titles, including the one he is perhaps most famous for — Quentin Tarantino’sHe starred as Hattori Hanzo, owner of a sushi restaurant and a retired samurai who crafts a sword for Uma Thurman’s character.
Chiba attended Nippon Sport Science University in 1957 and after studying under a karate master earned a first-degree black belt before acquiring a fourth-degree two decades later, along with additional black belts in ninjutsu, shorinji kempo, judo, kendo and goju-ryu karate. In 1970, he launched Japan Action Club, now known as Japan Action Enterprise, in an effort to raise the level of martial arts techniques and sequences used in big and small screen projects.
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