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Beginning with Drunken Angel (1948), Mifune appeared in 16 of Kurosawa's films, most of which have become world-renowned classics. In Kurosawa's pictures, especially Rashomon (1950) , Mifune would become the most famous Japanese actor in the world.
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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 (1961).
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- 'Seven Samurai' (1954) At the end of the day, Seven Samurai is the best movie Akira Kurosawa ever made, and it's the best movie Toshiro Mifune ever starred in.
- 'High and Low' (1963) Showing that Akira Kurosawa could make a great crime movie the same way he could make a great samurai movie, High and Low proves to be up there with his best.
- 'Yojimbo' (1961) Yojimbo is another film featuring both Toshiro Mifune and Tatsuya Nakadai, though here, Mifune is certainly the lead. It's a classic Akira Kurosawa movie in every sense of the word, telling the story of a lone wanderer who comes into a small town, sees it's plagued by gang warfare, and then sets about with a scheme that will see both gangs take each other out, all the while he remains in the middle as the last man standing.
- 'The Sword of Doom' (1966) Befitting the morbid title, The Sword of Doom is one of the darkest samurai movies of all time. It follows a swordsman named Ryunosuke, who's notorious for being a cold-blooded, seemingly invincible, and immoral killing machine.
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- Sanjuro (1962) - 8.1. Originally an adaptation of Shûgorô Yamamoto's novel Peaceful Days, Sanjuro was turned into a sequel to Yojimbo after that film's success.
- The Hidden Fortress (1958) - 8.1. The Hidden Fortress is perhaps best known in the United States as one of the primary inspirations for Star Wars. George Lucas lifted the technique of telling the story from the perspective of its lowest characters from the film; its basic plot would later be a major inspiration for The Phantom Menace.
- Throne of Blood (1957) - 8.1. Throne of Blood is one of Akira Kurosawa's Shakespeare adaptations. Blood places the plot of Macbeth into feudal Japan with Mifune in the lead role.
- The Life of Oharu (1952) - 8.2. The Life of Oharu is the only films on this list in which Mifune did not have a starring role. The film stars Kinuyo Tanaka as Oharu, a woman who is dogged by misfortune throughout her life.
1. Drunken Angel (1948) Not Rated | 102 min | Crime, Drama, Romance. 7.6. Rate. A drunken doctor with a hot temper and a violence-prone gangster with tuberculosis form a quicksilver bond. Director: Akira Kurosawa | Stars: Takashi Shimura, Toshirô Mifune, Reizaburô Yamamoto, Michiyo Kogure. Votes: 13,348. Watch on Plex. Go to plex.tv. 2.
Toshirō Mifune (April 2, 1920 - December 24, 1997) was a Japanese actor who is widely regarded as one of the greatest actors in the history of Japanese cinema.
