Do you remember the drama "Dominating the World"? I believe that the 8090 generation of people will not be strangers, the main actors of this drama have now achieved fame and have their own successful careers. But what you don't know is that the actor in the role of "Xiongba" is a Japanese actor.
According to the website of the Japan Broadcasting Association (NHK), Mr. Shinichi Chiba, a famous Japanese actor, died at the age of 82 at Junzu City Hospital in Chiba Prefecture at 5:26 p.m. local time on August 19, 2019, caused by pneumonia caused by the new coronavirus.
For most Chinese audiences, he has another name, the surname Xiongmingba, checked, there are indeed surnames xiong among the hundred family names, this role is said to have been planned to find Mr. Wan Ziliang to play at the beginning, and later felt that it was not suitable, replaced by Mr. Qianye.
Of course, Wan Zi is easy to perform the "arrogant" sense, but it is still too big brother style, rather than adding two more beards and four eyebrows, you can have a long style. The male bully played by Shinichi Chiba is not angry and arrogant, which is different from the "neuroticism" of ordinary Hong Kong villain actors.
If Zeng Jiang is the most evil and charming, then Chiba Sensei is the most domineering one.
Stills from the TV series "Storm"
Mr. Chiba attended Nippon Sports University in his early years, but after an injury, he was forced to participate in the towing audition of Toei Corporation and entered the show business circle.
He has cooperated a lot with director Shinji Fukasaku, whose first directorial work "Detective of the Wind Laifang" was starred by him, and then he was out of control, from the information compiled on Douban, the two cooperated in as many as 23 films.
In addition to the two sequels of "Battle of the Inhumans 2" and "Battle Royale 2", and the "Kamata March" with the character of gunfight, and the costume films adapted from Tadayoshizo such as "Ako Castle Break", the most representative ones should be "The Conspiracy of the Yanagi Clan" and "Rebirth in the Demon World".
In both films, he plays the same role, the famous swordsman Yanagi Shibei, who is known as the "Yanagi Three Heavenly Dog" with his grandfather and father for three generations, and in Japan, the tengu is an extremely fierce and revered deified animal.
In "The Conspiracy of the Yanagi Clan", Shinichi Chiba plays Yanagisei Shibei
Liu Sheng Shibei had a one-eyed similar eye to Xiahou Huan, and it is said that it was due to a momentary mistake by his father when he taught him martial arts when he was a child, which also caused the tragic fate of the father and son to love and kill each other.
This is reflected in the two films "Liu" and "Demon", that is, in the end, there is a heavy scene of father and son killing each other, the difference is only that the former is Ye Shi, the father but Ma Shou for the interests and personal ambitions of the Liusheng family, and at all costs, so the ten guards kill their father for the sake of righteousness.
"Demon Rebirth" is a brain hole, from a historical sword film to a fantasy movie, through the Shimabara Rebellion, that is, the bloody feud between the Tokugawa shogunate and the Catholics, the dead Miyamoto Musashi, Iga Ninja, and Yanagi ButaMori are pulled into the demon world and revived, and Mr. Chiba Shinichi's re-enactment of the Ten Guards has become the last righteous force against these "evil evil ways"...
At this moment, revisiting this somewhat cult movie, I can't help but think of the old saying: Some people are alive, he is dead. Some people are dead, he is still alive.
Played ten guards again in "Demon Rebirth"
Filmed in 1978, "The Conspiracy of the Liusheng Family" was not only later introduced in China, but also had a great influence on the Hong Kong film industry.
Cheng Xiaodong's first work, 1983's "Life and Death Decision", because there is Xu Shaoqiang playing the Master of the Liusheng clan, Miyamoto, so in terms of costume and action design, it is said that there are references to "The Conspiracy of the Liusheng Family".
Japan's costumed sword films have reached a very high level and realm in action scenes, especially in the portrayal of human nature, while relatively speaking, Hong Kong's costume martial arts films pay more attention to fun and rhythm, and must play lively and laugh happily, so in terms of plot and artistic conception, it has always been a shallow taste.
In terms of action design, although Hong Kong learned from Japan in the early days, it was more and more "out of line" later, all kinds of heaven and earth, "strange tricks and tricks", while the Japanese side seemed to be serious and "dull".
Cheng Xiaodong borrowed from "The Conspiracy of the Liusheng Family" in "Life and Death Decision"
The post-new century sword films are nothing more than two directions, just like the samurai trilogy based on the novel by Shuhei Fujisawa by yoji Yamada, in which "The Kiyobei of Dusk" is starring Mr. Chiba's most famous disciple, Sanada Hiroyuki.
And Sanada's debut work is precisely the "Conspiracy of the Yanagi Clan" mentioned earlier.
Mr. Chiba's proud disciple Hiroyuki Sanada starred in "The Kiyobei of Dusk"
As for the other direction of development, it is adapted from the manga, the representative works are "Gintama", and "Ranger Sword Heart".
It has to be mentioned that in the final chapter of "The Sword Heart of The Ranger", "Ren Jie", the actor who plays the villain Yukidai yuan, that is, an arms dealer from the Shanghai gang, with white hair and a pair of small round sunglasses on the bridge of the nose, is Mr. Chiba's son, Nitta Makoto. Although the aura of the body shape cannot be compared with the father, the domineering spirit in the genetic genes can still be clearly felt.
And the origin of this film with Hong Kong films, of course, it must be mentioned that the martial finger in it is Kenji Tanigaki from Zhen Jiaban.
However, even if it is the "backfeed" of Hong Kong's action concept, it is still a relatively realistic number of roads, at most it is like "gecko swimming on the wall", rather than Cheng Xiaodong's imagination.
Mr. Chiba's son, Makoto, starred in the villain Yukiyo in "The Ultimate Chapter of the Sword Heart of The Rangers"
Mr. Shinichi Chiba acted in many costume films, from young to old, from Japan to Hong Kong, from the young warrior who initially challenged evil and power, to the spokesman of the world's power, he can play it with ease, and even in Quentin's Hollywood movie "Kill Bill", he also played Hattori Hanzo, a sword casting master.
Although the background of this film is contemporary, the name Hattori Hanzo actually represents the famous ninja legion of the Tokugawa clan, which contributed to the unification of Japan by the Tokugawa shogunate.
It's like Bai Mei is just a good veteran in the film, but the name itself represents an important symbol of Hong Kong martial arts films, at least for fans Quentin.
Hattori Hanzo in Kill Bill
But if you think that Mr. Chiba only plays costume films, it is a big misunderstanding, in addition to some gangster movies, he starred in "Shinkansen Bombing" written and directed by Junya Sato, the director of "The Hunt" and "Human Witness", as early as 1975, along with Ken Takakura and Ken Uzui.
Although due to the age and technology, this film does not seem to be too tense and exciting now, but please note that one of the big ideas in the film is that the villain played by Ken Takakura has planted a bomb on the train, and if it slows down, it will explode.
That is to say, this train can only keep driving at high speed, it must not slow down, it is impossible to stop and defuse the bomb, and Mr. Chiba plays the train driver in the film, facing the great crisis that has not occurred in these two thousand years, sweating profusely...
Chiba driver in The Shinkansen Bombing
This film idea must be very familiar to fans, because almost twenty years later, there are similar ideas and premises in "Life and Death Speed".
But if you think that Junya Sato's script is the first original, it may still be wrong.
The initiator of this brilliant idea is said to be Akira Kurosawa, who wrote the 1966 screenplay "Violent Train" and first had this amazing setting, but unfortunately for various reasons, it was not until 1985 that it was made into "Violent Train" by director Andrey Kocharovsky, but the film seems to be far from the legendary first original idea.
Mr. Chiba's career is long and exciting, and he is not satisfied with just being a good actor, but also sang the theme song of the movie, and personally directed two movies, one of which is called "Father", in which he plays the male protagonist, Ryūmichi Numata.
The other, and his first directing work, was 1990's "Beautiful Warriors", and the male protagonist was his disciple Hiroyuki Sanada, which was based on the brown bear attack in Sanmaobetsu Village, Japan, and the most horrific bear cannibalism incident, which occurred in Hokkaido in 1915.
A giant bear broke into the village of Sanmaobetsu, killing 7 people and injuring 3 people. The bear was eventually hunted and found to be 2.7 meters tall and weighed 340 kilograms, an incident known to the Japanese.
Although it is the first time to direct a film, the composition, narrative and action design in the film are extremely old and exquisite.
Although it is hunting and killing "monsters" in the ice and snow, which sounds like a more cult story, director Qianye treats it neither as exaggerated and romantic as ordinary martial arts films, and divorced from reality, but does not appear too realistic and barbaric, but has a special aesthetic, and infinite vitality.
And such themes and movies, even in the Japanese film industry, are rare later.
What probably reminds me most is taiwanese director Wei Desheng's two "Cedek Balai", the difference is only that the latter resists human aggression, while the former is only looking for black bears to avenge.