Shin'ichi "Sonny" Chiba's fighting style was less balletic than it was breathtakingly brutal. Chiba, a star of martial arts cinema in his native Japan, made his name by landing heart-stopping punches ...

TOKYO (AP) — Japanese actor Sonny Chiba, who wowed the world with his martial arts skills in more than 100 films, including "Kill Bill," has died. He was 82. His office says he died in a hospital ...

It is curious to think that a film deemed too long for the attention spans of 2003 would see a successful release 18 years into the smartphone era, but Miramax was wrong. Perhaps the extent to which a ...

Members of cast and crew actor Shinichi Chiba, or Sonny Chiba, actress Lucy Liu, actress Julie Dreyfus, director Quentin Tarantino, actress Chiaki Kuriyama, actress Uma Thurman and producer Lawrence ...