Tag: Sonny Chiba

• Deadly Fight In Hiroshima (1973)

  February 5, 2021

  1970s, Action, Crime, Drama, History, Japanese Cinema, Thriller

  Another Lewis Rice O’Donnell recommendation, The Yakuza Papers are a five film series of gangster movies directed by Kinji Fukasaku (Battle Royale) based on news stories and journalists covering the post-war era. Battles Without Honor and Humanity: Deadly Fight In Hiroshima (1973) aka Hiroshima Death Match is the second movie in the series, and our… Read.

• Doberman Cop (1977)

  September 26, 2019

  1970s, Action, Crime, Japanese Cinema, Noir, Thriller

  Aside from being referenced in True Romance and starring in Kill Bill Vol. 1, I’d not actually seen any Sonny Chiba films. So I took a chance on Doberman Cop (1977; Doberman Deka), which is based on a manga, and has Chiba playing a cop from Okinawa, trying to solve the murder of a young… Read.