Sonny Chiba

Sonny Chiba would go on to attain legendary status in martial arts cinema. His persona and acumen are still fondly cited today, decades after he put his stamp on the genre. Suffice to say that The Street Fighter is still consistently regarded as a high mark in his career, the movie that announced to any and all that were willing to pay attention that Chiba had arrived onto the scene. As far as street fighters are concerned, Ryo and Ken never knew what hit them.

“Ride or die.” Those words only appear a few times in the franchise – most famously out of Vin Diesel’s gravelly baritone in Fast & Furious 6 – but they have become the personal motto for how this franchise has continued, grown, succeeded and become greater with each film. Today, Furious 7, the latest in the …

Kill Bill Vol. 1 Written and directed by Quentin Tarantino 2003, USA Starring Uma Thurman (The Bride/Black Mamba), David Carradine (Bill/Snake Charmer), Lucy Liu (O-Ren Ishii/Cottonmouth), Vivica Fox (Vernita Green/Copperhead), Daryl Hannah (Elle Driver/California Mountain Snake), Michael Madsen (Budd/Sidewinder). Also starring Sonny Chiba, Julie Dreyfus, Chiaki Kuriyama, Gordon Liu and Michael Parks. “Revenge is a …

Sushi Girl Directed by Kern Saxton Written by Kern Saxton and Destin Pfaff USA, 2012 Remember that iconic opening scene in Reservoir Dogs, when Steve Buscemi’s Mr. Pink has a scenery-chewing whinge about the audacity and impudence of tipping? Well, imagine if instead of coffee and breakfast on the table there was a fully naked …

Sushi Girl  Written by Kern Saxton and Destin Pfaff Directed by Kern Saxton USA 2012 Fantasia imdb I saw Sushi Girl under almost perfect conditions: at the Fantasia Film Festival surrounded by more than 700 enthusiastic grindhouse film fans in the presence of the producer, director, writer and virtually the entire cast including Andy MacKenzie …

The release of The Raid: Redemption has made us revisit our favourite martial arts flicks and pick five favourite films to suggest for Sound on Sight readers. Before I give my five picks though, I would like to turn the floor over to a man who has been a friend of mine since grade seven at Oxford …