{"id":4059,"date":"2025-01-22T05:00:35","date_gmt":"2025-01-22T05:00:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cdfroundup.org\/blog\/?p=4059"},"modified":"2025-02-05T01:53:27","modified_gmt":"2025-02-05T01:53:27","slug":"happy-birthday-sonny-chiba-2025","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cdfroundup.org\/blog\/01\/happy-birthday-sonny-chiba-2025\/","title":{"rendered":"Happy Birthday to CDF alumnus Sonny Chiba!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"p1\">January 22, 1939 \u2013 July 25, 2020<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">Born Sadaho Maeda in Fukuoka, Japan; and beginning his screen career under the name Shin&#8217;ichi Chiba \u2013 Mr. Chiba was a prolific actor in Japanese film and TV, with more than 200 acting credits in movies and television, including films such as Invasion of the Neptune Men (1961), The Golden Bat (1966), The Street Fighter (1974), Golgo 13: Assignment Kowloon (1977), Message From Space (1978), Shogun\u2019s Ninja (1982), and Kill Bill: Vol. 1 (2003). But it is his role as the heroic journalist Ken Abe in the 1966 creature feature classic TERROR BENEATH THE SEA that confirmed Mr. Chiba\u2019s inclusion among the honored CDF Alumni.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-1059\" src=\"https:\/\/cdfroundup.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/Sonny-Chiba_Instagram_1080x1080.jpg\" alt=\"Sonny Chiba photo collage\" width=\"100%\" height=\"100%\" srcset=\"https:\/\/cdfroundup.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/Sonny-Chiba_Instagram_1080x1080.jpg 1080w, https:\/\/cdfroundup.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/Sonny-Chiba_Instagram_1080x1080-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/cdfroundup.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/Sonny-Chiba_Instagram_1080x1080-1024x1024.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/cdfroundup.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/Sonny-Chiba_Instagram_1080x1080-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/cdfroundup.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/Sonny-Chiba_Instagram_1080x1080-768x768.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1080px) 100vw, 1080px\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>January 22, 1939 \u2013 July 25, 2020 Born Sadaho Maeda in Fukuoka, Japan; and beginning his screen career under the name Shin&#8217;ichi Chiba \u2013 Mr. Chiba was a prolific actor in Japanese film and TV, with more than 200 acting credits in movies and television, including films such as Invasion of the Neptune Men (1961), [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1059,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[89,15,7,5,6,32,365,16,364,283],"class_list":["post-4059","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-creaturefeature","tag-actor","tag-cdfalum","tag-cdfroundup","tag-creaturedoublefeature","tag-creaturefeature","tag-happybirthday","tag-inremembrance","tag-movies","tag-sonnychiba","tag-theterrorbeneaththesea"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/cdfroundup.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/Sonny-Chiba_Instagram_1080x1080.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cdfroundup.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4059","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cdfroundup.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cdfroundup.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cdfroundup.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cdfroundup.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4059"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/cdfroundup.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4059\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4060,"href":"https:\/\/cdfroundup.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4059\/revisions\/4060"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cdfroundup.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1059"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cdfroundup.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4059"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cdfroundup.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4059"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cdfroundup.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4059"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}