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2006
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Japanese action icons Sonny Chiba and Yasuaki Kurata team up for the first time ever on the big screen in this supernatural...
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2006
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2005
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Quentin Tarantino's sprawling homage to action films of both the East and the West reaches its conclusion in this...
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Fights Choreographer
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2004
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Perhaps the most highly anticipated film of 2003, Kill Bill Vol. 1 marked the return of renowned filmmaker Quentin Tarantino...
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Fights Choreographer
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2003
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2003
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Lee may be unrivaled as a swordsman, but losing his memory has quite understandably left him feeling lost and haunted....
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2000
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Cinematographer Andrew Lau directed this Hong Kong martial arts fantasy from a Manfred Wong screenplay. Wong based his script...
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Lord Conqueror
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1998
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Two vengeful assassins are loose on the streets of New Orleans and are looking to systematically murder some of the elite...
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1995
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Careful, parents: this one's Immortal Combat, not Mortal Kombat. And it's R-rated, too. Even so, the young fans of wrestler...
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1994
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Chappy Sinclair enlists the aid of a team of wild air show pilots after he discovers that a Peruvian drug lord has set up...
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1992
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Casey Chan Lai-ying directs this Hong Kong/Japanese co-production about a pair of Hong Kong cops -- Julia Cheung (Sibelle Hu...
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1992
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Screen legend Sonny Chiba makes his feature directorial debut with this tale of a young bear hunter who vows to end the...
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Director, Executive Producer
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1990
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The boy who is the Shogun's Shadow, or heir, is in considerable danger. Personal bodyguard Igo Gyobu (Ken Igata), accompanied...
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Fights Choreographer, Iba Shoemon
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1989
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1985
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As might be gathered from its title, The Legend of the Eight Samurai is set in feudal Japan. Princess Hiroku Yokoshimaru's...
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Dosetsu
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1984
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Shogun's Ninja revolves around two rival ninja clans whose constant battle for superiority has spanned decades and cost...
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1983
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A double disaster film with both an American and a Japanese cast, Virus presents some pretty wild probabilities to viewers....
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Dr. Yamauchi
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1982
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In this actioner, a brave fighter takes on a deadly quintet of his peers to save the life of his lover who has been captured...
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1982
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A martial-arts master returns to his native Japan to fight for his family name. ~ Rovi...
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1982
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1982
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Starring in his third release in 1982 (the others were Moeru Yuja and Hoeru Tekken,) Hiroyuki Sanada plays a fighting hero...
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Daisuke Kamikaze
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1982
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The world of drugs, mobsters, fascists, and assorted other criminal types is taken on single-handedly (almost) by the hero...
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Shunsuke Tachikawa
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1982
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In this Japanese fantasy, the wrathful ghost of a shogunate warrior emerges from a thunderstorm to exact revenge on those...
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1981
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A has-been samurai movie star takes unfair advantage of the loyalty of one of his devoted fans in this Japanese...
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1981
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Transported 400 years into the past after falling into a mysterious time slip, a squadron of contemporary Japanese soldiers...
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Fights Choreographer, Lieutenant Iba
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1981
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Starring martial arts expert Sue Shiomi in the tile role, Dragon Princess centers around a tough princess who enlists the...
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1981
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1981
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1980
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The Bushido Blade is set in 19th century Japan, at the time of American Commodore Matthew Perry's opening up of the ancient...
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Prince Edo
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1980
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A super-villain with no scruples at all starts off this complex, twisting, turning action film that continues its gyrations...
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1980
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Sonny Chiba is the chopsocky star of Karate Warriors. Chiba is a self-styled crime fighter, and the film certainly gives him...
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1980
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In Hideo Gosha's tale of organized crime in 18th-century Japan, a group of disenfranchised warriors decide to form an...
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1979
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The third entry in the Street Fighter series found the filmmakers adding in James Bond style trickery to spice up the kung-fu...
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1979
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Message from Space, a bargain-rack Japanese Star Wars clone, stars Vic Morrow as the token American. Responding to a plea for...
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Hans
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1978
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You've seen him as the bone-cracking anti-hero of the Street Fighter films, now watch Sonny Chiba team with Japanese screen...
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Yagyu Jubei
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1978
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Japan's greatest actor, Toshiro Mifune, and their most powerful action star, Sonny Chiba, team up in this historical action...
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1978
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This martial-arts actioner from director Kazuhiko Yamaguchi is the third in a series of films inspired by the life of...
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Matsutatsu Oyama
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1977
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1977
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1977
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Japanese martial arts legend Sonny Chiba stars in this action-packed drama. In Karate Bear Fighter, Chiba plays Masutatsu...
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Matsutatsu Oyama
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1977
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Sonny Chiba stars in The Killing Machine; in fact, you could say that he is the killing machine. A veteran of the World War...
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Doshin So
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1976
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A bunch of Japanese and NYC gangsters face off while a martial arts hero attempts to make sense of it all in this actioner....
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1976
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Ryuichi Koga
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1975
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After attracting notoriety at movie theaters around the world (along with plenty of profits) with the brutal kung-fu hit The...
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1975
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Sonny Chiba stars in this action drama about a martial arts champion who wants to leave the competitive world for a quieter...
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Oyama
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1975
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Motivated by their very real grievances, a group of bombers announce that they have placed speed-triggered bombs aboard a...
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Aoki
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1975
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While most martial arts films focus mainly on showing the moves, strikes and blows of the combatants, they don't show the...
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Terry Tsuguri
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1974
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This exciting action film from prolific director Teruo Ishii stars Sonny Chiba as Kouga, a descendant of a long line of ninja...
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Ryuichi Koga
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1974
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1974
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1973
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Nami (Meiko Kaji) is back, and this time the Ginza Butterfly is on a mission to kill the man who murdered her father when she...
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1971
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Sonny Chiba fits the title role of Assassin like a spiked glove. Chiba plays a karate expert who poses as a criminal. In...
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1970
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When a mad scientist creates a world of cyborgs in his underwater city, it takes a united effort between the American and...
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1966
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Koji Ota's Invasion of the Neptune Men actually is as bad a movie as the Godzilla films are supposed to be -- which doesn't...
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1963
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