{"id":24278,"date":"2021-08-19T12:05:33","date_gmt":"2021-08-19T18:05:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/allouttabubblegum.com\/?p=24278"},"modified":"2021-08-19T12:05:33","modified_gmt":"2021-08-19T18:05:33","slug":"r-i-p-sonny-chiba-1939-2021","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/allouttabubblegum.com\/new-home\/r-i-p-sonny-chiba-1939-2021\/","title":{"rendered":"R.I.P. Sonny Chiba (1939-2021)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>&#8220;Well, he ain&#8217;t so much a good guy as he is just a bad motherfucker.&#8221;<\/em> &#8211; <strong>Quentin Tarantino<\/strong><br \/>\n<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>Everyone here at AOBG is very saddened to hear of the passing of Shinichi &#8220;Sonny&#8221; Chiba. A true legend of the martial arts genre, and of Japanese cinema in general, was lost today at the age of 82. The legacy he leaves behind is immense &#8211; many of his films still have not had a proper English release &#8211; and his impact on the genre cannot be overstated. Like many fans, I was introduced to Mr. Chiba through &#8220;The Street Fighter&#8221; and was impressed by the sheer ferocity of his performance. Chiba was a different kind of hero in that film, a rougher and sometimes amoral karate master that wasn&#8217;t afraid to get his hands dirty, figuratively and literally. (The brutality of the action scenes in &#8220;The Street Fighter&#8221; has been widely imitated for a reason.) Seeing Chiba become more well-known in the West, after mentor roles in later films like &#8220;Kill Bill&#8221; and &#8220;Fast and the Furious: Tokyo Drift,&#8221; was a delight. I&#8217;m glad he knew how many fans he had all around the world before his passing. Our hearts are with his family today.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;Well, he ain&#8217;t so much a good guy as he is just a bad motherfucker.&#8221; &#8211; Quentin Tarantino<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":24279,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[2523,1537],"class_list":["post-24278","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-articles","tag-shinichi-sonny-chiba","tag-sonny-chiba"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/allouttabubblegum.com\/new-home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24278","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/allouttabubblegum.com\/new-home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/allouttabubblegum.com\/new-home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/allouttabubblegum.com\/new-home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/allouttabubblegum.com\/new-home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=24278"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/allouttabubblegum.com\/new-home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24278\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":24281,"href":"https:\/\/allouttabubblegum.com\/new-home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24278\/revisions\/24281"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/allouttabubblegum.com\/new-home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/24279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/allouttabubblegum.com\/new-home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24278"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/allouttabubblegum.com\/new-home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=24278"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/allouttabubblegum.com\/new-home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=24278"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}