‘Cowboy Bebop’ First Look: Netflix’s Live-Action Series Starring John Cho Arrives November 19

Patrick Frater Asia Bureau ChiefDisney’s Asia-Pacific president Luke Kang says that the group is preparing to do battle with other companies to become a significant player in Korean and Japanese original production.“We are not going to dabble. We are going to be a major player,” said Kang on Tuesday.

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Naomi Osaka continues defending her US Open title! The Haitian-Japanese tennis player won her first 2021 US Open match against Marie Bouzkova of the Czech Republic. The 23-year-old athlete defeated Bouzkova after winning two straight sets.“It‘s an incredible energy.

Richard Kuipers A young woman discovers she’s a crime family heiress in “Yakuza Princess,” a grimy action-thriller set in the neon-drenched streets of São Paulo’s Japanese district. Adapted from Danilo Beyruth’s graphic novel by Brazilian filmmaker Vicente Amorim (“Motorrad), “Yakuza” delivers stylish shootouts and eye-catching swordplay but lacks the dynamic characters and story-telling panache required to lift it into the top grade.

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Netflix‘s adaptation of Cowboy Bebop have just been released – you can check them out below.The forthcoming series is set to rework the hit Japanese anime, created by Sunrise and originally launched in the 1990s. The new take from the streaming giant will air in November.John Cho is set to play the main character, Spike Spiegel, who is described as “just a humble bounty hunter”.

Sonny Chiba has sadly passed away after battling COVID-19.

Shin'ichi "Sonny" Chiba, a martial artist and actor known for appearing in various films and television series, has died at 82. The star's rep confirmed to Fox News that Chiba died of COVID-19 complications on Wednesday in a hospital outside of Tokyo.

Japan as Shinichi Chiba, died late Thursday, Tokyo-based Astraia, his management office, said in a statement Friday.Japanese media said had been hospitalized near Tokyo with COVID-19 and died from pneumonia.Chiba rose to stardom in Japan in the 1960s, portraying samurai, fighters and police detectives, the anguished so-called “anti-heroes” trying to survive in a violent world.

Variety reported that it had received confirmation of the news from Chiba’s agent. With an acting career beginning in the 1960s with a string of roles in Japanese martial arts films and TV shows, Chiba became widely known in the west after being name-checked in True Romance, the 1993 thriller written by Tarantino and directed by Tony Scott.

The martial arts and movie communities are mourning the death of Sonny Chiba.

Starz has set Sunday, October 17 for the Season 2 premiere of its critically acclaimed crime drama Hightown. The sophomore season of the series, produced by Jerry Bruckheimer Television and Lionsgate Television, will debut at 9 PM ET/PT on Starz in the U.S.

died on Thursday due to complications from COVID-19. Martial arts actor known for “Mortal Kombat” Lewis Tan, Japanese auteur Hideo Kojima and Quentin Tarantino’s New Beverly Cinema shared their tributes for Chiba on Thursday.“A true action legend.

Quentin Tarantino‘s Kill Bill films, has died aged 82.Chiba died on August 19 from pneumonia which was caused by contracting COVID-19, Variety has confirmed via his agent. The actor had been admitted to hospital initially on August 8.Alongside his performances opposite Uma Thurman as the master Japanese sword smith Hanzo in Kill Bill Vol.

Sonny Chiba was a Japanese martial artist and actor known for roles in the “Kill Bill” series and “The Fast and the Furious: Tokyo Drift.”Chiba was a gymnast in his youth, learning martial arts while in college. He eventually became a fourth-degree black belt in karate as well as mastering several other martial arts styles.

Sonny Chiba, the Japanese actor and martial artist known internationally for appearing in the Kill Bill films and The Fast and the Furious, died of Covid complications, according to Japan’s Oricon News. He was 82.

Jordan Moreau Shinichi “Sonny” Chiba, the Japanese actor and martial arts legend who had roles in American films like “Kill Bill” and “The Fast and The Furious: Tokyo Drift,” died on Thursday, his agent confirmed to Variety. He was 82.Chiba’s career in film and television spanned from the 1960s through the 2010s, and he appeared in countless Japanese titles, in addition to some popular American films.