The actor skillfully mastered karate and other fighting techniques, the audience is known, for example, from the first part of the Kill Bill film series.
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Chiba, the son of a military pilot, has been successfully practicing gymnastics since childhood. His promising career ended with an injury. He first appeared in film in Japan in the 1960s, showing his art on screen in dozens of films.
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He appeared abroad in a 1974 film full of karate Gekitoc! Sacujin Ken (The Street Fighter). In 2003, he starred in Quentin Tarantino’s film Kill Bill, in addition to his own role, he was also an instructor in the fight scenes of the entire film crew.
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Chiba became infected with coronavirus at the end of July, initially treated at home. When his health deteriorated, he was hospitalized near Tokyo on August 8. He has been on pulmonary ventilation for the last few days. The actor was not vaccinated.
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