# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/sonny-chiba
# Generated: 2026-08-13T19:28:03.149Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/sonny-chiba"
name: "Sonny Chiba"
slug: "sonny-chiba"
description: "Shinichi Chiba IPA: [tɕiꜜba ɕiɰ̃itɕi], known internationally as Sonny Chiba, was a Japanese actor and martial artist. Chiba was one of the first actors to achieve stardom through his skills in martial arts, initially in Japan and later to an international audience."
tagline: "Japanese actor and martial artist (1939–2021)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Sonny_Chiba_1961.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "Japan"
  isoCode: "JP"
category:
  name: "Actors"
  slug: "actors"
profileType:
  name: "Actor"
  slug: "actor"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q33999"
birthDate: "1939-01-22"
deathDate: "2021-08-19"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           58.28
  momentum:             0
  historical:           25.34283333333333
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     80
  profileCompleteness:  90
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
  - platform:  "FACEBOOK"
    url:       "https://www.facebook.com/JJ.s.chiba"
    handle:    "JJ.s.chiba"
  - platform:  "IMDB"
    url:       "https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0002002/"
    handle:    "nm0002002"
  - platform:  "SPOTIFY"
    url:       "https://open.spotify.com/artist/0Q7WLZPB1MTGaY7Mx1kB0p"
    handle:    "0Q7WLZPB1MTGaY7Mx1kB0p"
  - platform:  "WEBSITE"
    url:       "https://www.chibashinichi.com/"
sources:
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    title: "Discogs"
    type:  "DATABASE"
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    title: "سوني شيبا"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%B3%D9%88%D9%86%D9%89_%D8%B4%D9%8A%D8%A8%D8%A7"
    title: "سونى شيبا"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Sonny Chiba"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Sonny Chiba"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://cs.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sonny_%C4%8Ciba"
    title: "Sonny Čiba"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://da.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sonny_Chiba"
    title: "Sonny Chiba"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sonny_Chiba"
    title: "Sonny Chiba"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sonny_Chiba"
    title: "Sonny Chiba"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sonny_Chiba"
    title: "Sonny Chiba"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "سونی چیبا"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fi.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sonny_Chiba"
    title: "Sonny Chiba"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sonny_Chiba"
    title: "Sonny Chiba"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://gl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sonny_Chiba"
    title: "Sonny Chiba"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://hu.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sonny_Chiba"
    title: "Sonny Chiba"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Սոննի Չիբա"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://id.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sonny_Chiba"
    title: "Sonny Chiba"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sonny_Chiba"
    title: "Sonny Chiba"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E5%8D%83%E8%91%89%E7%9C%9F%E4%B8%80"
    title: "千葉真一"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ko.wikipedia.org/wiki/%EC%B9%98%EB%B0%94_%EC%8B%A0%EC%9D%B4%EC%B9%98"
    title: "치바 신이치"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ms.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sonny_Chiba"
    title: "Sonny Chiba"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sonny_Chiba"
    title: "Sonny Chiba"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://no.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sonny_Chiba"
    title: "Sonny Chiba"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://pl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sonny_Chiba"
    title: "Sonny Chiba"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sonny_Chiba"
    title: "Sonny Chiba"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://musicbrainz.org/artist/c809cb58-894e-4eab-b88c-83f14573043c"
    title: "MusicBrainz"
    type:  "DATABASE"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q351732"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"
  - url: "https://www.themoviedb.org/person/2537"
    title: "Sonny Chiba"
    type:  "DATABASE"

# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump