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Toshiro Mifune (三船 敏郎, Mifune Toshirō, April 1, 1920 – December 24, 1997) was a Japanese actor and producer. A winner of numerous awards and accolades over a lengthy career, [1] [2] Mifune is best known for starring in Akira Kurosawa's critically acclaimed jidaigeki films such as Rashomon (1950), Seven Samurai (1954), Throne of Blood (1957), The Hidden Fortress (1958) and Yojimbo ...
Toshirô Mifune. Actor: Yojimbo. Toshiro Mifune achieved more worldwide fame than any other Japanese actor of his century. He was born in Tsingtao, China, to Japanese parents and grew up in Dalian. He did not set foot in Japan until he was 21. His father was an importer and a commercial photographer, and young Toshiro worked in his father's studio for a time after graduating from Dalian Middle ...
Toshirô Mifune. Actor: Yojimbo. Toshiro Mifune achieved more worldwide fame than any other Japanese actor of his century. He was born in Tsingtao, China, to Japanese parents and grew up in Dalian. He did not set foot in Japan until he was 21. His father was an importer and a commercial photographer, and young Toshiro worked in his father's studio for a time after graduating from Dalian Middle ...
Nov 28, 2022 · Toshiro Mifune passed away 25 years ago this December (2022). He was the first non-white superstar of global cinema, the first actor to play a yakuza (in the 1948 Kurosawa movie Drunken Angel), the precursor of Clint Eastwood's "man with no name," and every other cool existential loner via his role in Yojimbo (1961, Akira Kurosawa).. In his definitive double biography of both men, Stuart ...
Dec 25, 1997 · He was 77. The Kyodo news agency reported that Mr. Mifune had died of organ failure, without providing details. In more than 120 films, 16 of them for Mr. Kurosawa, Mr. Mifune (pronounced Mih-FOO ...
Aug 4, 2023 · Toshiro Mifune’s Death and Legacy The renowned actor continued to work into his 70s. His last film was Kei Kumai’s Deep River, a spiritual and religious journey into the heart of India based on Shusaku Endo’s novel of the same name. That was released in 1995, the same year his estranged wife Sachiko Yoshimine died.
Feb 11, 2022 · It includes all the movies Mifune and Kurosawa made together — certified masterpieces like “Seven Samurai” and “Rashomon,” as well as less well-known but excellent pictures like “High ...
Jul 3, 2024 · Mifune Toshirō (born April 1, 1920, Qingdao, Shandong province, China—died December 24, 1997, Mitaka, near Tokyo, Japan) was a leading actor in the post- World War II Japanese cinema, known internationally for his energetic, flamboyant portrayals of samurai characters, especially in films directed by Kurosawa Akira.
Mar 17, 2017 · Mifune’s name is undoubtedly closely connected with the jidai geki (period film) and its sub-category, the chambara, as the title of the recent documentary Mifune: The Last Samurai (Steven Okazaki, 2015) recalls. However, Mifune was a far more versatile actor than his star image suggests. He rose to fame at a time when Japanese society was facing accelerated social changes following the ...
Mifune, in his role as samurai general Washizu, the Macbeth figure who becomes progressively greedy with power driven by his wife, impresses with a ruthless physicality: his frantic, wide-eyed expressions, his sharp but stylised movements that convey strength, intensity, and lust for power, his internal struggles that filter through every gesture.
