Any Sonny Chiba Fans On The Hype?

HELL YEAH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

I own:

Karate Warriors (yes, excellent)
Executioners 1 and 2 (Karate Inferno)
Defensive Power of Aikido
Mass Oyama Trilogy (Karate Bullfighter, Karate Bearfighter, Karate for life)
Killing Machine a.k.a Shorinji Kempo (dude, don't miss this)
Street Fighter trilogy (and Sister Street Fighter too, even though he's not Terry there)
Golgo 13
Bullet Train
The Bodyguard
Shogun's Samurai
Shogun's Shadow

Sonny Chiba is the THE MAN! Great thread!

 

I became a Sonny Chiba fan because of his Mas Oyama trilogy. I've been in kyokushin karate since I was 5 and Mas is my hero so I was so excited to see movies based on him. Totally exaggerated the events of his life (Mas never faught the bear) but it's still cool to see someone playing my Grand Master on screen.

 

I would have to go back and watch them but I have Master Oyama's bio here and I remember thinking how ridiculous the movies were.

The tournament is true though, Oyama never lost a fight in his life. I was lucky enough to be trained by Tadashi Nakamura one of Oyamas original 10 students, his personal reprisentative to spread Kyokushin Karate in the US. So I didnt train with Oyama but I did with one of his best students.

 

You need to find "G.I.Samurai"......a group of modern day Japanese soldiers enter a time warp (along with a tank, helicopter, and jeeps) and wind up back a few hundred years in Japan's past.....epic battles insue.

 

street fighter is actually pretty cool, i got it accidentally thinking it was a tie in with the game and was presently surprised by it.

 

hes awesome, and yes i am a fan but i dont have too many movies i have

the street fighter trilogy
and
shoguns samurai

oh and kill bill vol.1 if that counts

i really need to get some more hes awesome

 

Will do

 

Dude, Sonny Chiba was not Mas's favorite student, I dont even know where you would get that. He had his 10 favorite students and all were given high positions in the Kyokushin organization. His top favorites were brothers Soshu S. Oyama, and Saiko Shihan Y. Oyama. Both were so loved by Oyama that they changed their last name to his and referred to themselves as his sons. I've trained with Soshu.

I'm sure Sonny trained with Mas but he was not a favorite, he was like any other student. If he was then he would have been given a high position in the org like the other 10. He was an actor and was not totally committed to Kyokushin, not like the others who made it their life. Not to take anything away from Sonny, he's awesome but the fact that he was not apart of Mas' inner circle and even left the organization says a lot.

 

There's no denying that Oyama and Chiba knew each other. You said "favorite student" though and that's where the error lies. Oyama was always very open with who he considered his favorites and his favorite were always the fighters. All 10 were held in high regard just like Oyama was when he first started spreading Kyokushin across the world by taking challenges from anyone who would and then beat them. When he got old his 10 took up the reigns, Sonny did not (he's an actor, guess he didn't want to hurt himself). He was a student never a fighter.

Plus, if as you said you got the info from the DVD box of Sonny's movies what do you expect them to say? Of course they are gonna call him Oyama's favorite if he was or was not, it just sells better to have the master's favorite student playing him in a movie. Chiba's awesome and a good martial artist, there's no taking that away from him but being Oyama's favorite is pure marketing.

Believe me, if he were I would know, I've been apart of the Kyokushin organization for 22 years now joining at 5 years old.

 

ChickenScracth: I just started Kyokushinkai a month ago and I'm loving it

rodhulk: Yeah, I totally need to get the Shadow Warriors Season 1 set, but then again, I could get the entire series (like 5 seasons) over on ebay, for about the same price I think.

Yagyu Conspiracy is more of a drama, but a great film nonetheless. Fights are not abundant, but what there is, is of the highest quality. Action by Sonny's JAC. And Sonny plays Yagyu Jubei.

Shogun's Shadow, on the other hand, is INSANE. It's a really fun action adventure, with excellent action set pieces. There's sword fighting, spear fighting, ninjitsu, gore, kung fu (monkey AND drunken), and Chiba as the bad guy. The final fight scene is incredible. Don't miss this movie. Plus, it's got a b1tchin' 80's metal soundtrack

Here's the trailer:

 

I've just PMed you.

 

Right back at you

 

I have the 4 The Street Fighter movies in a box set, which includes the unrated version of the first...very good flicks

 

Good, cause the action in both movies (particularly Shogun's Shadow) is really good.

Dude, I'm sorry...it's not available anymore, and I'll tell you why. Most likely because there's an official release for Season 1.
I remember seeing some bootlegs on ebay, they offered the 5 seasons for like 60 dollars, but I can't seem to find them now.
I just hope they plan to release the following seasons.
Hey, is Sue Shiomi in the series?

 

I picked up The Bushido Blade today....last time I saw it was when it originally came out, so don't remember specifics about it.