{"id":106292,"date":"2021-08-23T16:33:26","date_gmt":"2021-08-23T21:33:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/?p=106292"},"modified":"2021-08-23T16:37:31","modified_gmt":"2021-08-23T21:37:31","slug":"martial-artist-and-kill-bill-star-sonny-chiba-dead-at-82-of-covid-19-entertainment-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/?p=106292","title":{"rendered":"Martial Artist and \u201cKill Bill\u201d Star Sonny Chiba Dead at 82 of Covid -19! &#8211; Entertainment News"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/js\/adsbygoogle.js?client=ca-pub-1545664804358300\" crossorigin=\"anonymous\"><\/script><br \/>\n<ins class=\"adsbygoogle\" style=\"display: block; text-align: center;\" data-ad-layout=\"in-article\" data-ad-format=\"fluid\" data-ad-client=\"ca-pub-1545664804358300\" data-ad-slot=\"8616314829\"><\/ins><br \/>\n<script>\n     (adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({});\n<\/script><\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/?p=106292\" rel=\"https:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/?p=106292\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft wp-image-106293 size-medium\" style=\"margin-right: 10px;\" src=\"https:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/120091258_gettyimages-508766246_cut-300x169.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"169\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/120091258_gettyimages-508766246_cut-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/120091258_gettyimages-508766246_cut-768x432.jpg 768w, https:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/120091258_gettyimages-508766246_cut.jpg 976w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>By Geoffrey Huchel<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Japanese actor and martial artist Sonny Chiba, died August 19, 2021 in a hospital in Tokyo where he had been treated for COVID-19. He was 82.<\/p>\n<p>Chiba, who held black belts in Karate, Ninjutsu, and Judo, achieved stardom through his skills in martial arts initially in Japan and later before an international audience. Chiba appeared in over 200 film and television productions, most notably KILL BILL: VOL. 1 (2003), KILL BILL: Vol. 2 (2004), and THE FAST AND THE FURIOUS: TOKYO DRIFT (2006). Some of his additional credits include THE STREET FIGHTER (1974), RETURN OF THE STREETFIGHTER (1974), THE STREETFIGHTER\u2019S LAST REVENGE (1974), BULLET TRAIN (1975), THE TRUSTED CONFIDANT (2007), KILL BILL: THE WHOLE BLOODY AFFAIR (2011), TAKE A CHANCE (2015) and SHAKESPEARE IN TOKYO (2018).<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>Ringside Report sends our condolences to Sonny Chiba\u2019s family during their time of grief.<\/p>\n<p>[si-contact-form form=&#8217;2&#8242;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Geoffrey Huchel Japanese actor and martial artist Sonny Chiba, died August 19, 2021 in a hospital in Tokyo where he had been treated for COVID-19. He was 82. Chiba, who held black belts in Karate, Ninjutsu, and Judo, achieved stardom through his skills in martial arts initially in Japan and later before an international [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17984],"tags":[27259],"class_list":["post-106292","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-entertainment-news","tag-martial-artist-and-kill-bill-star-sonny-chiba-dead-at-82-of-covid-19-entertainment-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/106292","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=106292"}],"version-history":[{"count":-3,"href":"https:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/106292\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=106292"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=106292"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=106292"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}