Hello. My name's Justin the Clu, and I'm here today with Will Sloan.

And you're listening to The Important Cinema Club. And today, we're going to get violent.

We're going to do martial arts. And we're going to street fight because we're talking about

Sunny Cheba. If you've got to podcast, podcast dirty.

Listen, when I was a teenager and I was getting really into martial arts movies, of course I loved Bruce Lee.

And not just the movies, but especially his interviews.

You know, I loved hearing him go on and on about kung fu as the art of expressing the human body and and hearing his philosophy of Jit Kundo,

the way that a fighter should be like water, my friend. But then there was another guy,

a guy that you would often find if you haunted the Walmart bargain bins, a guy for whom

the martial arts was about hurting people. Well, at least in the perception that we got

in North America of his characters

that became very popular. Shinichi Sanichiba has had a very long career that continues to this day,

started in the early 1960s, has encompassed many genres. But for the martial arts film

officionado, it really comes down to one movie, and that is the street fighter.

And that is, I would say, the ultimate grindhouse film. And me, like I feel a lot of people,

heard about Chiba for the first time in a little movie called True Romance, written by Quentin Tarantino. That's interesting because I think I saw that after another Tarantino affiliated movie,

affiliated, he directed it, called Kill Bill Volume 1, in which Sunny Cheeba makes a cameo. And I also remember seeing like a really shitty

bargain bin documentary about Bruce Lee that had a section about Bruce Lee imitators. There was footage

from a trailer for a movie called The Bodyguard, where it had this memorable refrain, Viva, Chiba.

That trailer's so good.

Much better than the movie.

Yes, I would agree with that.

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