In Popular Culture
Christian Slater's character Clarence Worley in the movie True Romance is a big Sonny Chiba fan. In an early scene he watches a Sonny Chiba triple feature. The writer of True Romance, Quentin Tarantino, worked with Chiba ten years later in Kill Bill.
Samuel L. Jackson's character in the 1994 movie Pulp Fiction recites a creed spuriously attributed to Ezekiel 25:17, beginning, "The path of the righteous man is beset on all sides by the inequities of the selfish and the tyranny of evil men," and ending, "...and you will know my name is the Lord when I lay my vengeance upon thee." This creed was originally used as the opening scroll in the Sonny Chiba movie, Karate Kiba (English title: The Bodyguard), substituting the words, "...and they shall know that I am Chiba the Bodyguard...," in the above passage
In the introduction sequence to the video game The Revenge of Shinobi, he is shown wielding a sword and shielding against throwing stars.
Sonny Chiba was recently referenced in the TV Show Chuck. In the episode "Chuck Versus the Other Guy", Josh Gomez's character Morgan Grimes notices a fake martial arts sequence, and uses his knowledge of Sonny Chiba movies as proof the fisticuffs are exaggerated.
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