will you puhleeeeeze stop trying to make sense out of this perfectly ridiculous thread?
Ridiculous? What you talking bout Willis? This thread is about Sonny Chiba, and that’s as real and serious as you can get.
One more bad word about ninjas and Sho Kosugi will hijack every beer truck heading to your town.
bahh…my door is always open to any two-bit-no-talent neenja who wants to come visit.
Ha, the gauntlet has been thrown down, expect a visit from the ninja master! Of course you’ll never see or hear him, you’ll just wake up with one eye brow shaved off and your left finger in a glass of warm water. At least that’s how it went down at Ninja summer camp.
ppffffffttt
Well ppffffffttt and blech right back at you!
hush…i’m studying up on Stephen Oliver’s latest marketing schemes…no time for neenjas now.
Oh, Snap. Got ‘Moved’
figured it would have happened sooner. 
[QUOTE=Lama Pai Sifu;733842]Have you guys ever heard of Chinese Ninjas? [/QUOTE]
You mean Lin Kuei?
uh-oh…you done did it now.
the forest devils will be paying you a visit any night now…
chinese ninjas
i have heard of chinese ninjas. they would throw coins in the faces of there enemy, flick hanckerchiefs in the eyes. use gorund pepper in the face and put shoes on their hands to fight against a knife. simple effective weapons hidden in plain sight.
and if i hear anybody say anything bad about ninjas again they will get an hand full of coins thrown in their face like the naughty strippers they are.:mad:
Back on track,
The character name for Chiba’s character character in The Streetfighter series actually means Polished Sword, a meaning that is, in a way, conceptually identical to the term “kung fu.”
What really makes this series (Streetfigter one and two only) a classic is the choreography. They had a team of choreographers working on this series and they succeded in giving it a very raw quality. The only other classic to really rise above the others like this was Fist of Legend. There was a team working on that one, too.
mickey
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xG7c6VYqoVU
LOL !! Kids…
Nice…
Greetings,
With regard to Chiba’s Streetfighter, does anyone remember the opening jail fight scene between Tsurugi and Junjo being longer than it is now shown, even in the uncut versions? I remember it continuing past the opening credits and Tsurugi was really jacking Junjo up inside by holding him and ramming with his knees, Thai style. Does anyone else remember this?
mickey
Freakin Hilarious.
Chiba is the man!!
Sonny Chiba! Viva Chiba!
I think Sonny Chiba has to be my favorite martial arts actor, after Richard Harrison and Stuart Smith. He is just awesome, and his films are really well done, I think.
I also think, and this may be juvinile, that Sonny Chiba could have beat Bruce Lee, and Chuck Norris in an official match at their primes.
Anyway, back to the movies.
I have been collecting Sonny Chiba DVDs for a little while. I haven’t watched them all yet, but I got the excellent sets of:
Lethal Chiba(I watched The Executioner)
Samurai Collection(I watched the 1st title.. Yagyu Conspiracy?)
Shogun Collection(I started GI Samurai but didn’t finish it yet)
Sister Street Fighter Collection(I know Chiba is only in the 1st one, I watched the 2nd one)
Sonny Chiba Action Pack(I watched Bullet Train)
Welcome to the Grindhouse, Dragon Princess/Sister Street Fighter
Welcome to the Grindhouse, The Bodyguard/Karate Warriors
The Street Fighter/Return of the Street Fighter(on the Walmart Digiview label, kinda dark and grainy but WS)
I think BCI should give us the definitive Street Fighter set, of the 3 movies with original language options, trailors ect. They could do it as a double disc or a flipper, with The Street Fighter on one(side), and the 2 sequels on the other.
Street Fighter’s Last Revenge(on Platinum DVD, very nice WS pic)
Terror Beneath the Sea(not a MA film, but great anyway)
I think this is all I have… which is about all one needs anyway… though I would like that Trilogy set he has, I can’t recall the name, Matsayu? His master’s name. Yeah I could look it up…
I want to give those Grindhouse discs a good viewing next. I sampled them, but I don’t think I watched them all through.
My favorite Chiba movie is Killing Machine. I have this, and watched it only from the Brentwood 10 pack, which was dubbed and fullscreen, but it had a decent pic.
Comments welcome,
Chosen One
Yeah Killing Machine is pure awesomeness. My favorite from Chiba as well. I have the remastered Adness version and it makes the movie so much better.
Check out Soul of Bruce Lee aka Soul of Chiba sometime. Chiba looks so freaking good doing Hong Kong style action.
Killing Machine is, IMO, Chiba’s best work.
I’ve seen Time Slip at Best Buy but have yet to pick it up (probably should’ve gotten it instead of Godzilla Raids Again). It’s another title for G.I. Samurai, which I don’t have.
kungpowmaster:
You may want to look up Legend of the Seven Monks. It has a good fight between Chiba and screen legend Yasuaki Kurata, and was filmed only about 2 to 3 years ago, I think. They both still look great in their 60s, but besides being younger, Kurata is clearly the better martial artist of the two (or at least the better-looking technically). Kinda makes you wonder what if they had screen fought in their primes…