As a master samurai swordsman, bandit or modern gangster, he led the postwar breakthrough of Japanese films in Stray Dog, Rashomon, Saikaku Ichidai Onna, The Seven Samurai, Macbeth, The Lower Depths, The Hidden Fortress and Yojimbo the Bodyguard. Several of these films were remade in America and other countries, often as Westerns or science fiction epics (or both). Mifune directed one film, 500,000 (1963).
As an established star by the mid-'60s, Mifune made occasional U.S. films, wherein he spoke limited English or was dubbed. Those included Grand Prix, Hell in the Pacific, Midway and 1941. He died Dec. 24, 1997.
AddRashomonConsidered one of Japanese director Akira Kurosawa's masterpieces, this Oscar-winning crime drama unfolds as four witnesses to a rape and murder report their versions of the attack, leaving the viewer to decide what really happened. But the chain of events depicted by the bandit (Toshiro Mifune),... Read More
AddYojimboMasterless samurai Sanjuro Kuwabatake (Toshiro Mifune) finds himself in a feud-torn Japanese village in legendary director Akira Kurosawa's darkly comic film, which served as the prototype for Clint Eastwood's A Fistful of Dollars. After pretending to work for merchants on both sides of the feud,... Read More
AddThrone of BloodDirector Akira Kurosawa's magnificent rumination on Shakespeare's tragic "Macbeth" is a dark samurai drama set in feudal Japan, in which two soldiers -- Washizu (Toshirô Mifune) and Miki (Minoru Chiaki) -- find themselves lost in a dense forest during a powerful thunderstorm. When they... Read More
AddSanjuroAkira Kurosawa's sequel to Yojimbo is a dark comedy about surly Sanjuro (Toshirô Mifune), a larger-than-life samurai who, adrift in an era of fading tradition and increasing lawlessness, instructs a gang of scheming radicals in samurai wisdom. An unlikely hero who loves an action-packed... Read More
AddStray DogMurakami (Toshirô Mifune), a young police officer in 1940s Tokyo, finds that his gun was stolen while he was riding a packed bus. With his position in jeopardy, Murakami, aided by veteran officer Sato (Takashi Shimura), tries to locate his missing weapon. Together, they head to some of the... Read More
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