So long, Shin'ichi "Sonny" Chiba

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Bob Jersey

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Aug 19, 2021, 2:34:05 PM8/19/21

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Five-decade veteran of Japanese film and telly, but still best known as the swordsmith-turned-sushi chef who crafted the blade Uma Thurman needed to "Kill Bill"... you can also connect him to, f'rinstance, the original "Battlestar Galactica" through Noah Hathaway (Boxey), whom years later teamed with him in 2012 indie clunker Sushi Girl...

Today (8/19) from COVID; 82.

https://variety.com/2021/film/news/sonny-chiba-dead-dies-martial-arts-kill-bill-1235044575/ (link)

M-D November

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Aug 22, 2021, 12:00:29 AM8/22/21

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Also immortalized in “Invasion of the Neptune Men”, riffed on my the MST3K crew.