Few people know that Hong Kong cartoonist Ma Rongcheng's comic "Wind and Cloud" was not announced until December 2014, a total of 25 years later.
What fewer people know is that Shinichi Chiba was nominated for the Academy Awards for the role of The Hero in "Storm: Dominating the World", and was nominated for Best Actor.
Shinichi Chiba, 82, passed away on August 19, 2021.
He contracted covid-19 on the day of the start of the Tokyo Olympics and finally did not survive until the 19th.
60 years ago, As the national gymnastics champion in Japan, Chiba Shinichi was bent on fighting until the 1964 Olympic Games, but unfortunately he fell to the ground and was injured while practicing vaulting, so he had no choice but to give up sports.
Unexpectedly, after closing the sports window, God opened the door of film and television for him.
He was drafted to become an actor at Toei.
Before Chinese audiences met Shinichi Chiba in 1998 in Storm: Dominating the World, he was japan's most famous action star.
In addition to his status as an actor, he is also a karate and singer.
And because he was once a quasi-Olympian, he has always been agile, so he almost does not need a stand-in in the action scenes he has.
Shinichi Chiba became famous for the 262-episode detective drama Key Hunter, which aired between 1968 and 1973.
In the drama, Shinichi Chiba is not the male number one, but the journalist Yosuke Kazema, played by him, is an important character in it, with keen reasoning ability and athletic skills, which is quite pleasing.
With his excellent physical qualities and his ability to excel in karate, swordsmanship, fighting, and shooting, He soon became a well-known action actor throughout Japan.
The action scenes and stunts of Key Hunter even surpassed the level of Hong Kong and Hollywood in the 1960s and 1970s.
A TV episode features fights on the roofs of real trains and helicopter suspensions.
These are Jackie Chan's famous scenes in "Police Story 3: Super Cop" ten or twenty years later, and Shinichi Chiba does not need a stand-in either!
In 1978, one of the directors of "Key Hunter", Shinji Fukasaku, made the costume martial arts drama "The Conspiracy of the Yanagi Clan", which became a hit, and Shinichi Chiba was the lead actor and action director.
Mainland audiences first saw Shinichi Chiba in the early 1980s Japanese comedy film "Putian March", which was also the work of Shinji Fukasaku, a famous translation producer of the Studio.
When the film was released on the big screen in China, like the previous sensational "Pursuit", the erotic scenes in the film were deleted, and it also became an enduring painting in Chinese theaters.
It was also the classic of Japan's most famous actress keiko Matsuzaka in the 80s, and was later praised by Chow Sing Chi fans as the Japanese version of the story of Yin Tianqiu and Liu Piaopiao. Shinichi Chiba is one of the supporting characters in the film, and there are no too brilliant action scenes.
At the same time, Shinichi Chiba's focus gradually shifted to the JAC office he founded in 1970, which specializes in training action actors.
Among the stars trained by the famous Japanese action actor Whampoa Military Academy, Sanada Hirooyuki is the most famous.
He has participated in many action blockbusters in Japan, Hong Kong and Hollywood, such as "Twilight Guards", "The Last Samurai", "Rush Hour 3" and so on.
The film that Chinese audiences are most familiar with is Chen Kaige's steamed bun work "Wuji", in which he played the invincible god of war "Guangming".
Many viewers remember him because Cecilia Cheung once mentioned her bed scene with Sanada Hiroyuki and said, "I am not embarrassed at all, because we are all working and have no idea of taking advantage." And Sanada Hirooyuki is very professional, and my whole body has been touched by him..."
The disciple of Shinichi Chiba, who is most familiar to Hong Kong film fans, is the famous hit girl Yuki Yuki Ōshima in the Hong Kong action movies of the 1980s and 1990s.
She has her presence in dozens of action Hong Kong films such as "Rich Train", "Angel Action", "Dream Awakening Blood Does Not Stop", "Force King" and so on.
She became the most famous actress in Hong Kong movies with Li Saifeng, Yang Ziqiong, Yang Lijing, Hu Huizhong, and also had a marriage history with "Brother Jiaqian" Zheng Haonan.
Although Shinichi Chiba was very popular in Japan, he even went to Hollywood to shoot in the early 90s.
But in order to gain the recognition of Chinese audiences in action movies, it is necessary to make a name for itself in Hong Kong, the mecca of action movie production in the world.
In 1998, Shinichi Chiba was invited by Wen Jun and Liu Weiqiang to participate in the performance of "The Storm Dominates the World", starring in the film's anti-No. 1 male bully.
In the early 90s, Liu Weiqiang, the fast-hand director who first filmed the "Ancient Puzzle Boy" series, personally held the camera and filmed the toughness and domineering of the character played by Shinichi Chiba.
Many Chinese viewers are seeing Shinichi Chiba's character for the first time and don't even know his Japanese identity.
"Domination of the World" became a hit in 1998 Hong Kong films. In the era of "double Mondays" led by Chow Yun Fat Chow Sing Chi Jackie Chan, "Dominating the World" became the first film in more than a decade without the three of them participating.
"Dominating the World" is also a movie with handsome men and beautiful women, two large maleS aaron Kwok and Zheng Yijian, as well as Shu Qi, Yang Gongru, Wu Yongwei, Xu Jinglei and other beautiful women.
Among the many handsome men and women, The nearly sixty-year-old Qianye Shinichi was not inferior, and it could even be said that the acting skills of Guo Tianwang and Hao Nange, who could only play handsome at that time, had become scum in front of him.
He interpreted the ambition and old scheming of the tyrant xiongba to plan the entire martial forest, and the classic cruel saying of the male bully, "The old man will change his life against the sky", has become an important label for the male bully.
He was able to push Aaron Kwok and Zheng Yijian to get the nomination for best actor, not by relying on the actions he relied on to become famous, but on the acting skills of the old drama bones.
Later, as we all know, Shiichi Chiba was nominated for the hong kong film awards the following year with this role, and the nomination award was "Best Actor", which is the only foreigner nominated for the Academy Awards so far.
But the final movie emperor was "robbed" by huang Mousheng, the "beast criminal policeman" who ran to Taiwan in the past two years.
Although Shinichi Chiba did not win an award, his role was recognized by the audience, and three years later he once again played the role of a bully in the TV series "The Wind and Clouds".
Although the lead actors of the drama, Zhao Wenzhuo and He Rundong, are slightly inferior to Zheng Yijian and Aaron Kwok, it does not hinder the popularity of the drama and has become a classic drama for young audiences.
In addition to "Wind and Clouds", Chiba Shinichi also starred in Liu Weiqiang's "Ancient Puzzle Boy 6: The Winner is King", in which he played kazuo Kusakari, the Japanese father-in-law of the pheasant.
He also starred in Fast & Furious 3: Tokyo Drift, which later developed into a super popcorn film.
Especially in Quentin's "Kill Bill", Shinichi Chiba plays a master swordsman who creates the last Japanese sword in his life for the heroine Uma Thurman.
He is also the swordplay director of the film, in which Uma Thurman and Liu Yuling's swordsmanship moves are all under his command.
Of course, Chinese audiences are also interested in his decades of art affair.
Compared with his idol Ken Takakura, who only loved one person in his life, Shinichi Chiba's love history is rich.
As early as the filming of "Key Hunter", he married actress Yoko Noji because of the drama, and the two divorced in 1994.
Two years later, Makoto Chiba repeatedly married an outsider woman who was 28 years younger, and divorced again in 2015.
It is said that the reason why Shinichi Chiba's second marriage broke down was in 2015, when Shinichi Chiba and a female college student who was more than fifty years younger talked about "grandchild love", and even his son exclaimed "can't believe it".
His second divorce has also become a sensational entertainment news in the show business world.
In 2007, Shinichi Chiba, who had been in the show business for more than 40 years, officially announced his retirement at the age of 68. Ken Takakura, whom he admires the most, has been acting until he was 80 years old, and even won a movie emperor in his last film.
This seems a bit thin for Shinichi Chiba, whose career was only nominated at the Hong Kong Academy Awards.
But an artist's ability to remember an actor for a lifetime with a role is already the biggest compliment to an actor.
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